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SOLDIERS 


IN   TUX 


EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA  IN  1690 


AMD 


GRANTEES    OF    THE    CANADA 
TOWNSHIPS 


BY 


WALTER   KENDALL  WATKINS 


[Prepared  foT  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  In  the  Commonwealth   of 

Massachusetts] 


Copyright,  1898 


BOSTON 

PRINTED    FOR    THE    AUTHOR 

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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Introductory     . 

Phips*  account  of  the  Ex- 
pedition 

Sketch  of  Sir  William 
Phips     .... 

Walley's  joumH)  of  the 
Expedition    . 

Sketch  of  Major  John 
Walley  .... 

Savage's  account  of  the 
Expedition    . 

Sketch  of  Major  Thomas 
Savage  .... 

K^ctracts  from  Sewall's 
Diary    .... 

Roster  of  the  Expedition  . 

Vessels  of  the  fleet  . 

Massachusetts  towns  in 
1690  and  date  of  incor- 
poration 

List  of  wounded  in  the 
Expedition    . 

Canada  Townships . 

Extracts  from  Massachu- 
setts Archives 

Beverly  Canada 
(Halestown,   Weare, 

N.H.) 
Beverly  soldiers    . 

Dorchester  Canada. 

iAshburnham,  Mass.) 
)orchester  soldiers 
Dedham  soldiers  . 
Milton  soldiers     . 
Medfield  soldiers . 
Braintree  soldiers 

Dorchester  Canada  gran- 
tees       .... 

Salem  Canada . 
(Lyndeboro',  N.H.) 

Salem  Canada  grantees  . 

Ipswich  Canada 

(Winchendon,  Mass.) 

Ipswich  Canada  grantees, 

Rowley  Canada 
(Rindge,  N.H.) 
Rowley  soldiers    . 

Rowley  Canada  grantees, 

Newbury  Canada    . 
(Bakerstown,  Sali'bury, 

N.H.) 
NewbuiT'  soldiers 

Newbury  Canada  gran- 
tecs        •         •        ■         • 

Sudbury  Canada 
(Bethel,  Maine.) 

Sudbury  Canada  peti- 
tioners .... 

Framingham  soldiers 

Hingham  Canada    . 
(Andrewstown,     New 


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Canada 
(Warwick,  Mass.) 

Gardner's  Canada  gran- 
tees       .... 

Weymouth  Canada . 
(Huntstown,   Ashfield, 
Mass. ) 

Weymouth  Canada  pro- 
prietors, 1739 

Plymouth  Colony  Records, 

Deaths  of  Plymouth 
Colony  soldiers     . 

Gallup's  Company  . 

Gallup's  Canada 
(Guilford.  Vt.) 

Taunton  Military  Records, 

Gorham  Canada 
(Dumbarton,  N.H.) 

Gorham's  Company 

Sylvester  Canada     . 
(Richmond,  N.H.) 

Sylvester  Canada  propri- 
etors, 1765     . 

Unlocated  grants  of  Can- 
ada tc'tnships  in  New 
Hampshire   . 

Haywood      or      Rand's 
Canada 
(Peterboro',  N.H.) 

Cambridge  Canada . 
(Lanestown,  New  Bos- 
ton, N.H.) 

Newton  Canada       . 
(Alstead,  N.H.) 

Newton  Canada  petition- 
ers  

Phips  Canada  . 
(Jay  and  Canton,  Maine.) 

Whitman  or  Marlborough 
Canada 
(Henniker,  N.H.) 

Wobum  petitioners 

Gleanings  from  Town 
Records 

Lancaster  soldiers 

Groton 

Reading    .       . 

Watertown 

Gloucester 

Boston 

The  1690  issue  of  paper 
money  .... 

Index  of  names  mentionsd 
in  account  of  1690  Ex- 
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THE    EXPEDITION    TO    CANADA    IN 
UNDER  SIR  WILLIAM  PHIPS. 


1690 


By  Walter  K.  Watkins. 


INTRODUCTORY. 

Having  made  some  notes  in  the  past  on  this  earJy 
expedition  of  Massachusetts  against  the  French,  I  was 
requested  by  my  fellow-members  of  the  Publication  Com- 
mittee to  present  it  to  the  Massachusetts  Society  in  its 
Year  Book  for  1898. 

Thinking  it  might  assist  members  in  obtaining  data,  I 
have  consented,  and  offer  it,  not  as  a  complete  work,  but 
as,  perhaps,  the  most  complete  collection  of  material, 
showing  who  participated  in  this  celebrated  though  un- 
successful attempt  of  the  colonists,  yet  gathered. 

Owing  to  the  non-existence  of  the  most  of  che  company 
rolls  one  is  forced  to  have  recourse  to  the  list  of  grantees 
of  the  townships,  received  as  a  recompense  by  a  portion 
of  the  participants  or  their  heirs. 

Unfortunately  these  lists  are  not  all  in  existence,  or 
there  may  be  examples  still  in  private  hands  and  un- 
known to  the  writer. 

If  the  results  obtained  by  their  publication,  in  supply- 
ing data,  equal  those  obtained  from  the  publication  in 
the  1897  Year  Book  of  the  accounts  of  the  17 10  and 
17 li  expeditions,  the  compiler  will  feel  repaid  for  his 
labor. 


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(    2    ) 
SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

An  interesting  presentation  of  the  French  accounts  of 
the  Expedition  is  given  m  "  Sir  William  Phips  devant 
Quebec,"  by  Ernest  Myrand,  published  in  Quebec  in 
1893.  An  attempt  to  present  a  list  of  those  participating 
among  the  English  troops  is  very  faulty,  from  a  lack  of 
knowledge  of  the  formation  of  the  militia  in  Massachu- 
setts, and  of  the  service  also  performed  by  them  at  Port 
Royal  early  in  1690;  and  also  from  the  lack  of  knowl- 
edge that  a  detail  of  a  portion  of  the  Massachusetts 
troops  was  made  against  the  Indians  in  New  England  in 
1690.  The  names  of  the  English  soldiers  are  in  many 
cases  wrongly  transcribed. 


SIR  WILLIAM    PHIPS'S   ACCOUNT    OF  THE    EXPEDITION    INTO  ACCADY, 
AMD  THAT   UPON   QUEBECK   IN   CANADA. 

Th(;  present  governors  together  with  the  inhabitants  of  New 
England,  out  of  a  true  sence  of  their  c;ratitude,  did  think  they 
could  do  no  better,  or  more  manifestly  express  their  loyalty  to 
Their  Majesties  than  by  venturing  their  lives  and  estates  toward 
the  enlarging  of  Their  Majesties  Dominions  in  America,  and 
particularly  for  the  reducing  of  Canada  unto  Their  obedience. 
According  to  thac  Resolution  they  did  raise  about  seaven  hundred 
men,  and  fitted  out  seaven  saile  of  ships  at  their  own  expense 
and  did  give  the  command  thereof  to  me. 

With  these  ships  and  men  I  set  saile  from  New  England  in 
March,  1689-90,  and  reduced  that  part  of  it  called  Accady,  and 
then  I  returned  to  New  England. 

And  for  the  more  effectual  prosecution  of  the  main  under- 
taking concerning  Canada,  the  said  governors,  with  severall  of 
the  chief  inhabitants  of  the  colony,  resolved  to  be  at  the  further 
charge  of  so  many  more  men  and  ships  as  might  be  sufficient  to 
take  Quebeck  (being  assured  by  ye  conquering  of  that  city  all 
the  other  parts  of  Canada  must  submit)  and  accordingly  two 
thousand  and  three  hundred  men  were  raised.,  and  about  tbiity 
saile  of  ships  fitted  out,  and  the  command  of  them  was  also  given 
to  me.    With  these  forces  I  departed  from  New  England  on  the 


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THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA  IN    1690. 

tenth  day  of  August,  1690.  But,  by  bad  weather  and  contrary 
winds,  I  did  not  reach  Quebeck  till  October,  that  the  frost  was 
already  fallen  in,  and  so  sharp  that  it  made  two  inches  ice  in  a 
night. 

This  notwithstanding,  I  summoned  the  Comte  De  Frontenack, 
the  governor,  to  surrender  the  town,  and  after  a  reviling  answer 
(that  I  and  those  with  me  were  traitors,  for  having  taken  up  with 
an  Usurper  and  have  seized  upon  our  governor  that  good  christian 
Sir  Edmund  Andros,  who,  if  he  had  continued  in  his  government, 
the  French  an  English  had  been  all  one)  I  brought  my  ships  up 
within  musquett  shott  of  their  cannon  and  fired  upon  the  towne 
with  that  success,  that  I  dismounted  severall  of  their  best  cannon, 
and  within  less  than  twenty-four  hours  beat  the  French  from  their 
works. 

At  the  same  time  fourteen  hundred  men  that  I  had  landed 
defeated  a  great  part  of  the  enemy,  and  by  the  account  of  the 
prisoners,  the  city  in  all  probability  must  have  been  taken  in  two 
or  three  dales,  but  the  small  pox  and  the  feavour  increased  so 
fast  among  the  men  that  it  delayed  the  pushing  on  the  siege  till 
the  weather  grew  so  extream  cold  that  no  further  progress  could 
be  made  therein.  So  I  returned  to  New  England.  A*  my  going 
off  from  before  Quebeck  I  received  several  messuages  from 
French  merchants  of  ye  best  note  and  reputation  to  let  me  know 
how  uneasie  they  were  under  the  ffrench  administration,  and  to 
assure  me  of  their  great  willingness  to  submit  to  Their  Majesties 
government. 

In  this  expedition,  the  enemy  suffered  great  damage  and  had 
a  great  number  of  their  men  killed,  and  many  taken  Prisoners, 
yet  the  loss  on  the  English  side  (notwithstanding  what  the  French 
have  falsely  given  out  of  severall  hundreds)  was  not  more  than 
thirty  men. 

The  above  written  is  a  true  account.     Witness  my  hand. 

William  Phips. 

sir  william  phips. 
We  are  indebted  to  Rev.  Cotton  Mather,  a  contemporar)-  of 
Phips,  for  many  facts  ui  the  life  of  the  leader  of  the  expedition. 


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(  4  ) 
SOCIETY  or  COLONIAL  WARS. 

He  published  his  "  History  of  Sir  William  Phips  "  in  London 
in  1697,  dedicating  it  to  his  successor,  Earl  Bellomont. 

The  matter  was  reprinted  in  a  folio  volume  of  788  pages,  in 
1 702,  entitled  "  Magnalia  Christi  Americana." 

Phips  was  born  2  Feb.,  1650,  "at  a  despicable  plantation  on 
the  river  of  Kennebeck,  and  almost  the  furthest  village  of  the 
eastern  settlement  of  New  England."  His  father  was  a  gun- 
smith, one  James  Phips,  formerly  of  Bristol,  England,  and  the 
mother,  who  survived  her  distinguished  son,  had  no  less  than 
twenty-six  children,  of  which  twenty-one  were  sons. 

The  father  dying,  the  son  dwelt  with  the  mother  until  he 
reached  eighteen,  when  he  became  apprenticed  to  a  ship -car- 
penter for  four  years. 

His  next  advance  in  life  was  his  removal  to  Boston,  where  he 
espoused  the  widow  of  a  merchant  of  the  town,  John  Hull,  who 
WPS  the  daughter  of  Capt.  Roger  Spencer. 

He  first  ventured  in  building  a  ship  at  Sheepscot  River  to 
load  with  lumber,  but  the  latter  undertaking  was  prevented  by 
an  Indian  uprising  which  embarrassed  him  financially.  He 
then  took  to  the  sea,  and  attempted  to  recover  treasure  from  a 
Spanish  wreck  at  the  Bahamas,  but  unsu ,  cessfully. 

In  1683  ^e  became  captain  of  a  king's  ship,  and  arrived  in 
New  England  commander  of  the  "Algier  Rose,"  a  frigate  of 
eighteen  guns  and  ninety-five  men,  with  which  he  sailed  for  the 
West  Indies  in  search  of  lost  treasures,  to  return  unsuccessful 
and  after  experiencing  an  attempt  of  hia  crew  to  mutiny. 

His  next  venture  in  search  of  treasure  wss  through  the  finan- 
cial aid  of  the  Duke  of  Albemarle  and  others,  and  resulted  in 
unloading  a  Spanish  wreck  of  ;^300,ooo  of  treasure,  the  tenth 
of  which  going  to  the  king  well  paid  him  for  the  grant  of  knight- 
hood to  the  fortunate  searcher. 

Returning  to  Boston  in  1688,  Phips  built  on  Green  lane, 
which  he  afterward  called  Charter  street,  in  memory  of  the  char- 
ter which  he  was  instrumental  in  obtaining  a  few  years  later. 

Phips  returned  to  England  again  in  1688,  and  came  again  to 
Boston  in  the  spring  of  1689. 

At  this  period  he  was  captain  of  the  "  Six  Friends,"  of  forty 
g\ins,  which  became  his  flagship  in  the  Quebec  expedition. 


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YOU  are  defired  to  Accompany  the  Corps 
of  Sir  WHliam  Pbifpt,  Knight^  from 
Saberr-Hail,  in  Smtbinr-Lane,  to  the  Parifti- 
Church  of  Sc  May  Woolmth^  in  Lumbard- 
fireet ;  On  Thurfday  the  21ft.  of  February, 
i59*-.  At  Five  of  the  Clock  in  the  After- 
noon preciicly  :  And  bring  this  Ticket  with 
you. 


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INVITATION    TO    FUNERAL    OF    SIR    WILLIAM    PHIPS. 


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PHI  PS. 


(  5  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN    1690. 

He  sailed  on  a8  Apr.,  1690,  for  Port  Royal,  N.S.,  Mth  seven 
hundred  men  in  eight  small  vessels,  which  surrendered  to  him. 

8  Aug.,  1690,  lie  sailed  on  the  disastrous  Quebec  expedition, 
and  a  few  weeks  after  his  return  sailed  for  England,  in  the  depth 
of  winter,  to  interest  William  and  Mary  in  another  attempt. 
During  1691  he,  with  Mather  and  Ashurst,  labored  for  a  new 
charter,  and  Phips  returned  to  Boston  14  May,  1692,  in  the 
"  Nonesuch  "  frigate,  with  the  coveted  document  and  commis- 
sioned as  governor. 

During  his  term  occurred  the  notorious  witchcraft  excitement 
and  its  sad  results. 

Trouble  was  experienced  by  him  with  Jahleel  Brenton,  the 
royal  commissioner  of  customs,  and  Joseph  Dudley,  which 
resulted  in  his  recall  to  England,  sailing  17  Nov.,  1694,  from 
Boston.  Shortly  after  his  arrival  in  England  he  contracted  a 
cold  which  developed  "  a  malignant  fever,"  and  he  died  on  the 
18th  Feb.,  1694-S,  and  was  buried  in  the  church  of  St.  Maty 
Woolnoth,  in  a  vault  under  the  organ  gallery  of  the  church  then 
Standing,  which  was  altered  and  rebuilt  1716-1719. 

The  •'  New  View  of  London,"  1708,  has  the  following,  \o\.  TV.,  p.  ago: 
"At  the  east  end  of  the  church  of  St.  Mary's  Woolnoth,  near  the  north- 
east angle,  is  r  pietty  white  marble  monument,  adorned  with  an  urn 
between  two  cupi.uS,  the  figure  of  a  ship,  and  also  a  boat  at  sea  with  persons 
in  the  water  ;  these  beb'.ld  by  a  winged  eye,  all  done  in  basso  reliovo  ;  also 
seven  medals,  as  that  of  King  William  and  Queer  Mary  ■;  some  with  Spanish 
impressions,  as  the  castle  cross-potent,  etc.,  and  likewise  the  figures  of  a 
sea-quadrant,  cross-staff,  etc.,  and  this  inscription:  'Near  this  place  is 
interred  the  body  of  Sir  William  Phips,  Knight,  who  in  the  year  1687, 
by  his  great  industry  discovered  among  the  rocks  near  the  banks  of 
Bahama,  on  the  north  side  of  Hispaniola,  a  Spanish  plate-ship,  which  had 
been  under  water  fourty-four  years,  out  of  which  he  took  in  gold  and  silver 
to  the  value  of  ;^300,ooo  sterling  ;  and  with  a  fidelity  equal  to  his  conduct, 
brought  it  sdl  to  London,  where  it  was  divided  between  himself  and  the  rest 
of  the  advt.iturers.  For  which  great  service  he  was  knighted  by  his  then 
majesty,  King  James  the  2d  ;  and  afterward  by  the  command  of  his  present 
majesty,  and  at  the  request  of  the  principal  inhabitants  of  New  England,  he 
accepted  the  government  of  the  Massachusetts,  in  which  he  continued  to  the 
time  of  his  death,  and  discharged  his  trust  with  that  real  for  the  interest  of 
his  country,  and  with  so  little  regard  to  his  own  private  advantage,  that  he 
gained  the  good  esteem   and  affections  of  the  greatest  and  best  part  of 


(  6) 

SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


I- 


inhabitantJ  ot  the  colony.     He  died  on  the  v8th  of  February,  i6<;4,  and  his 
lady,  to  perpetuate  his  menriory,  hath  «:aused  this  monument  to  b*  erected.' 
"  His  firms  were  sable^  a  trefoil  sl:ipt,  within  an  orle  of  eight  Mullets, 
argent." 

ABSTRACT  OF   SIR    WILLIAM  PHIPS'S  WILL. 

Sir  William  Phips,  Knight,  of  Boston,  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  Piovince 
of  Massachusetts  Bay,  in  New  England,  i8  December,  1693,  sworn  to 
by  Dame  Mary  Phips,  10  September,  1696  ;  proved  19  January,  1696.  To 
brother  James  Phips  or  his  heirs,  the  sum  of  five  shillings.  To  t  ,iy  dear 
and  entirely  belotred  consort  Mary  Phips,  and  to  her  heirs  forever,  all  my 
estate,  real  and  personal,  &c.,  &c.,  with  power  to  alienate  by  deed  of 
gift,  will  or  codicil.  If  she  should  die  without  having,  by  will,  disposed  of 
my  estate,  &c.,  it  shall  all  descend  and  fall  to  my  adopted  son,  Spencer 
Phips  als  Bennett  and  the  heirs  of  his  body.  If  he  should  die  without  issue 
surviving,  what  is  left  shall  be  equally  divided  and  shared,  or-  half  thereof 
by  my  sisters  Mary,  Margaret,  and  tiie  heirs  of  my  sister  Anne  deceased,  or 
their  heirs  forever,  and  the  other  half  in  like  manner,  to  the  relations  of  my 
beloved  consort,  reserving  only  out  of  the  whole  estate  one  hundred  pounds 
current  money  of  New  England,  which  my  said  relations,  and  the  relations 
of  my  said  wife,  shall  cause  to  be  pa'd  unto  John  Phipps,  son  to  my  brother 
John  Phipps  deceased,  or  to  his  heirs,  if  this  clause  be  not  repealed  by  my 
wife  aforesaid.  If  my  dear  consort  should  die  before  my  said  son  is  come 
to  age  or  is  married,  then  I  do  nominate  and  appoint  my  friends  Capl.  John 
Foster,  Esq.,  rnd  Capt.  Andrew  Belcher  of  Boston,  merchants,  to  be  trus- 
tees of  my  estate  and  guardians  to  my  said  son,  until  he  shall  be  of  full  age 
or  n.arried. 

The  witnesses  were  JoI:n  Phillips,  Jo'an  White,  John  Hiskett,  Jo':iah 
Stone,  and  John  Grecnougb.  Pyne-  15.* 


MAJOR  WALLEY'S  JOURNAL  IN  THE  EXPEDITION  AGAINST  CANADA  IN 
1692.  A  NARRATIVE  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS  TO  CANADA,  SOE 
FAR   AS   CONCERNED  THE   LAND   ARMY. 

Having  passed  the  isle  of  Percey,  and  being  put  back  by  a 
contrary  wind,  it  was  designed  there  to  have  landed  our  souldiei-s, 
to  have  settled  our  companys,  to  have  called  a  council  of  warr, 
to  have  made  and  ('eclared  such  orders  as  was  necessary  for  reg- 
ulating our  forces,  but  by  several  of  our  ships  and  vessels  being 
drove  otit  of  the  harbour  by  a  storm,  they  came  not  in  again 
seasonably,  and  soe  what  was  intended  was  prevented. 

*This  will  was  recorded  in  England  iind  also  in  Sutfolk  County,  Mass.  Probate 
Files  No.  3245. 


(  r  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN    1690. 


unty,  Mats.    Probate 


Upon  the  23d  of  Sept.  wee  came  to  an  anchor  at  Tarrasack, 
a  council  of  warr  was  called,  such  orders  and  ordinances  made 
as  was  judged  necessary,  and  ordered  to  be  published  in  every 
vessel,  and  at  the  head  of  each  company,  which  orders  are  upon 
record  and  may  be  seen. 

Orders  :  i.  That  the  laws  and  ordinances  of  war  passed  by  the  Gen- 
eral Court  of  the  Massachusetts,  for  the  better  regulating  their  forces ; 
together  with  all  such  additional  laws  and  orders  as  shall  now  be  made  and 
ordained  by  this  Council  at  their  present  session  ;  be  forthwith  read  and 
published  at  the  head  of  each  regimeni  or  company  of  souldiers,  and  on 
board  each  and  every  ship  and  vessel  iu  their  Majesties  Service  for  this  pres- 
ent expedition  to  Canada,  etc.  And  that  the  same  be  put  in  execution 
according  to  the  true  intend  and  meaning  thereof. 

2.  That  each  and  every  of  the  aforesaid  laws  and  ordinances  of  war,  and 
all  such  other  as  shall  from  time  to  time  be  made  and  ordain'd  by  the  Coun- 
cil of  War,  shall  be  declared  and  published  by  beat  of  druii  or  sound  of 
trumpet,  or  otherwise  at  discretion,  at  the  head  of  each  regiment  or  company 
of  souldiers,  and  on  board  each  and  every  ship  and  vessel  in  their  Majesties 
fleet ;  and  that  they  be  so  read  and  published  once  a  fortnight,  or  oftener, 
that  so  none  may  pretend  to  be  ignorant  thereof. 

3.  That  whatsoever  person  that  is  engaged  in  this  "present  service,  shall 
by  words  or  otherwise,  reprcach,  slight,  or  show  disrespect  to  any  of  his 
Superior  officers,  shall  be  punished  as  the  Council  of  War  shall  see  cause  ; 
respect  being  had  unto  the  circumstances  of  place,  office,  person  injuring, 
and  injured  ;    as  also  ^he  evil  tendency  thereof. 

4.  That  no  commander  or  other  person,  presume  to  send  or  suffer  any 
boat  whatsoever  to  be  rent  to  the  shoar,  or  any  ship  or  vessel  to  land  any 
men  after  the  first  anchoring  of  the  fleet,  other  vise  than  rs  they  shall  receive 
orders  from  the  General  or  council  of  war. 

5.  That  whensoever  any  men  shall  be  sent  on  shoar,  suitable  officers 
shall  be  sent  with  them,  to  command  and  order  them,  which  officers  are  to 
be  accountable  for  their  actions  and  behaviours  ;  and  also  are  required,  to 
attend  the  commands  and  dire^tiors  of  their  superior  officers. 

6.  That  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  any  officer  to  shoot  any  peruon 
that  shall  first  run  away  from  under  his  command  in  time  of  actual  service, 
if  he  cannot  be  otherwise  brought  to  attend  his  duty. 

7.  That  if  any  regiment,  company  of  souldiers,  or  other  person  under 
command,  shall  refuse  to  advance  forward  to  charge  the  enemy,  or  such  other 
service  as  shall  be  orderly  and  reasonably  required  of  him  or  them,  especially 
if  through  fear  or  cowardise,  they  shall  refuse  or  stay  behind,  he  or  they 
shall  loose  their  pay,  and  whole  share  of  plunder,  and  be  otherwise  disgraced, 
and  the  principal  punished  according  as  a  council  of  war  shall  determine. 

8.  That  no  person  whatsoever  shall  give  intelligence,  or  hold  any  cone- 
•j>onden<:e  with  the  enemy  on  pain  of  death. 


f'  f 


(  8  ) 

SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

9.  That  whosoever  shall  causelesly  nake  an  alarm,  or  needlesly,  or  wil- 
fully fire  a  gun  in  the  night,  shall  be  put  to  death,  or  suffer  such  grievous 
punishment  as  a  council  of  war  shall  inflict. 

10.  That  no  man  force  himself  upon  a  sentinel,  being  called  unto  three 
times  to  stand,  upon  the  peril  of  his  life. 

11.  That  if  any  souldier  or  other  person,  be  found  drunk  on  duty,  or  in 
time  of  actual  service,  he  shall  suffer  death,  or  such  other  grievous  punish- 
ment as  the  council  of  war  shall  determine  ;  consideration  being  had  unto 
the  ill  consequences  that  hath  or  might  have  been  by  reason  thereof. 

12.  That  all  officers  of  what  degree  soever,  take  special  care,  that  no 
souldiers  or  other  person  under  his  command,  drink  any  brandy,  ivine,  or 
other  strong-liquour,  at  any  time  to  excess,  especially  in  time  of  service,  and 
u'hilst  we  are  in  danger  from  the  enemy :  they  are  also  duly  authorized  to 
seize  aad  secure  in  order  to  try  all  such  ns  shall  offend. 

13.  That  present  quarter  be  given  to  those  of  the  enemy  that  shall  ask 
it,  according  to  the  laws  of  arms  and  nations,  if  it  can  be  done  without 
hazard. 

14.  That  all  persons  whatsoever  carry  themselve?  as  men  and  christians 
towards  all  prisoners,  especially  such  as  have  been  men  of  place,  aged  per- 
sons, women  and  children  ;  and  that  they  presume  not  to  offer  any  rudeness 
or  uncivility  to  any  woman  or  other  person,  on  pain  of  such  punishment  as 
the  council  of  war  shall  order,  according  to  the  circumstances  thereof. 

15.  That  whatsoever  souldiers  or  others,  that  shall  fight  or  quarrel  one 
with  the  other  in  time  of  service,  shall  loose  a  month's  pay,  and  be  otherwise 
punished  at  the  discretion  of  the  Council  of  war  ;  and  whosever  shall  so  fight 
or  quarrel  at  other  times,  shall  be  punished  at  the  discretion  of  the  commis- 
sion-ofBcers  of  that  company. 

16.  That  no  man  shall  pawn  or  exchange  his  arms,  either  in  field  or 
elsewhere  without  leave  of  his  captain,  or  dispose  of  any  arms  of  others,  or 
any  ammunition,  hatchets,  spades,  shovels,  or  other  stores  or  instruments  of 
war,  on  such  penalties  and  punishments  as  u  council  war  shall  order. 

17.  That  whosoever,  without  consent  as  aforesaid,  shall  buy,  receive,  ex- 
charge,  or  take  to  pawn,  any  arms,  ammunition,  or  instruments  of  war,  shall 
return  such  arms,  ammunition^  and  instruments  without  satisfaction,  or  forfeit 
twice  the  value  thereof,  and  suffer  such  other  punishment  as  a  council  of  war 
shall  appoint. 

18.  That  no  man,  without  consent  as  aforesaid,  being  under  command 
presume  to  fire  his  gun  without  order,  on  pain  of  such  punishment  as  the 
captain  or  commission-officers  of  that  company  shall  appoint ;  and  that  no 
man  presume  at  any  time  needlesly  to  fire  h'5  gun  without  order,  on  penalty 
of  two-shilling  six  pence,  to  be  deducted  out  of  his  wages  or  plunder. 

19.  That  whosrever  shall  at  any  time  seize  or  take  any  plunder,  of  what 
kind  or  nature,  soever  frcm  the  enemy,  shall  forthwith  give  notice  thereof  at 
the  General,  Lieutenant-General,  or  chief-officer  present,  with  an  account 
thereof,  that  the  same  may  be  disposed  and  secured  according  to  further 
order.    And  whosoever  shall  refuse  or  neglect  so  to  do,  shall  forfeit  his  share 


leedlesly,  or  wil- 
;r  such  grievous 

railed  unto  three 

ik  on  duty,  or  in 
grievous  punish- 
being  had  unto 
I  thereof, 
aal  care,  that  no 
brandy,  vAne,  or 
le  of  service,  and 
uly  authorized  to 


either  in  field  or 
arms  of  others,  or 

or  instruments  of 
hall  order. 
11  buy,  receive,  ex- 
nents  of  ■wzx,  shall 
isfaction,  or  forfeit 
IS  a  council  of  war 

under  command 

iunishment  as  the 

)int ;  and  that  no 

order,  on  penalty 

or  plunder. 

plunder,  of  what 

notice  thereof  at 

with  an  account 

:ording  to  further 

ill  forfeit  his  share 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

of  plunder,  and  make  restitution  of  what  they  shall  so  conceal,  withhold,  or 
imbezil,  and  also  suffer  such  further  punishment  as  a  council  of  war  shall 
determine. 

30.  That  no  person  whatsoever  presume  to  rifle  any  ship,  boat,  or  any 
other  vessel,  or  to  break  open,  unlock,  unty,  or  otherwise  undoe,  or  make 
loose  any  chest,  trunck,  box,  bale,  bundle,  or  any  other  vessel  wherein 
plunder  of  the  enemy  may  be,  whether  on  board,  or  on  shore,  in  any  house 
or  otherwise,  but  shall  secure  the  same  whole  and  undivided,  as  the  same 
shall  be  found,  ^nd  bring  the  same  to  the  chief-officer  then  and  there  present, 
who  is  to  take  such  further  order  therein,  as  shall  be  necessary  upon  pain  of 
forfeiting  his  whole  share  of  plunder,  and  suffering  such  further  punishment 
as  a  council  of  war  shall  inflict. 

21.  That  no  person  whatsoever  presume  to  set  fire  unto,  burn,  waste, 
deface,  or  otherwise  spoile  any  fort,  church,  eoUedge,  house,  barn,  ship, 
vessel  or  any  oihtt  goods,  provisions,  wares,  merchanJinT,  or  estates  whatso- 
ever, or  kill  or  destroy  any  hogs,  cattle,  or  any  other  tame  creature  belonging 
to  the  enemy,  without  order  from  their  captain.  Which  captains  are  required 
not  to  give  order  for  so  doing  without  necessity  require,  (which  necessity  is  to 
appear  such  to  the  council  of  war  if  questioned.)  But  as  they  shall  from 
time  to  time  receive  directions  from  the  General,  Lieutenant-Generai,  major 
of  the  regiment,  or  Council  of  war. 

22.  That  no  souluier,  seaman,  or  other  per«on  under  command  in  this 
present  expedition,  presume  to  plunder  the  enemy  in  time  of  fight  nor  whilst 
we  are  in  any  danger  from  the  enemy  ;  nor  whilst  they  chase  or  pursue  the 
enemy,  nor  before  they  have  secured  themselves  from  the  enemy,  nor  until 
they  have  orders  from  the  chief-officers  in  that  present  expedition,  or  at  any 
other  time  or  place  then  ordered,  or  contrary  to  articles  made  with  the 
enemy,  and  declared  on  pain  of  death,  or  such  other  penalties  and  punisu- 
ment  as  a  council  of  war  shall  inflict. 

23.  That  the  commission-officers  of  each  company,  do  punish  all  persons 
within  their  several  companies  respectively,  which  after  publication  hereof, 
shall  be  found  guilty  of  drunkenness,  swearing,  cursing,  and  neglect  of  the 
worship  of  God,  petty-thefts,  quarreling  when  not  in  service,  unnecessary 
firing  when  under  command  without  order,  not  doing  duty,  doing  duty 
negligeiitly. 

Upon  the  27th  of  Sept.  being  about  25  leagues  from  Cabeck, 
I  went  aboard  each  vessel  in  the  fleet,  that  had  souldiers,  to  take 
care  that  they  might  be  all  ready  and  fixt  for  the  service,  not 
knowing  how  soon  there  might  be  occasion ;  and  whereas  there 
had  been  complaints,  that,  aboard  several  o :  the  vessels,  the 
souldiers  and  others  had  near  a  third  part  of  their  allowance 
taken  off  without  order,  I  then  gave  orders  that  their  full  allow- 
ance might  be  given  them. 


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(    10  ) 

SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

Upon  the  5  th  Oct.  wee  came  up  with  the  Isle  of  Orleans,  the 
whole  fleet  together,  and  having  promised  our  men  that  they 
should  with  the  first  convenience  be  landed  to  refresh  them- 
selves, and  not  having  opportunity  before,  thought  it  might  doe 
well  to  doe  it  then,  proposing  to  the  council  that  wee  might 
then  settle  the  companys,  that  wee  might  then  secure  the  island, 
gaine  intelligence,  and  upon  our  informations  to  draw  up  such 
conclusions  as  were  necessary,  and  not  to  have  appeared  in 
sight  of  the  town  until  wee  were  fully  ready  to  fall  upon  them ; 
but  it  was  over-ruled  by  the  council,  and  agreed  we  should  take 
the  advantage  of  the  tide  and  be  in  sight  of  the  town  by  day 
light,  which  was  accordingly  done. 

Upon  the  6th  Oct.  it  was  concluded  that  a  summons  should 
be  sent  ashore,  and,  while  the  answer  was  coming,  to  put  our- 
selves in  the  best  posture  wee  could  for  landing,  but  by  that 
time  the  messenger  was  returned  wee  found  the  tides  did  not 
sute,  and  that  it  would  be  too  late  to  land  that  night.  It  was 
alsoe  then  agreed  upon,  that  the  army  should  land  at  the  north 
shore,  at  the  place  wee  after  landed  at ;  nat  the  small  vessels, 
that  had  guns,  should  take  in  the  ammunition,  provision,  field 
pieces,  spades  and  other  necessarys  for  the  souldiers  (that  tide  or 
the  next  they  were  to  come  up  to  Charles  river,  that  lyes  by  the 
town)  that  the  ships  boat  should  come  into  the  river  to  be  help- 
full  to  carry  the  souldiers  over,  and  the  souldiers  to  be  ready  by 
the  river  when  they  came,  that  so  they  might  be  helpful  each  to 
other,  as  there  had  been  occasion ;  that  the  field  pieces  should 
come  in  those  vessels  to  be  landed  on  the  other  side  of  the 
river ;  it  was  alsoe  agreed  that,  when  we  were  over  the  river,  the 
men  of  warr  were  to  sail  up  with  the  town,  and  when  they  per- 
ceived we  were  upon  the  hill,  especially  if  we  then  fired  a 
house,  they  were  then  to  land  200  men  under  their  guns,  and 
were  to  make  a  brisk  and  resolute  charge  to  enter  the  town ; 
alsoe  agreed  that  Shute  and  others  of  the  larger  vessels  that  were 
not  men  of  warr,  were  to  go  beyond  the  town,  that  the  enemy 
might  think  we  had  another  army  to  land  there ;  alsoe  agreed 
that  we  should  have  two  ministers  and  three  chirurgeons  ashore. 

These  things  being  thus  agreed  on,  on  the  next  morning 
being  the  7th  Oct.  wee  attempted  to  land  our  men,  but  by  a 


of  Orleans,  the 
men  that  they 
1  refresh  them- 
it  it  might  doe 
that  wee  might 
cure  the  island, 
»  draw  up  such 
^e  appeared  in 
ill  upon  them; 
we  should  take 
le  town  by  day 

Limmons  should 
ttg,  to  put  cur- 
ing, but  by  that 
e  tides  did  not 
:  night.  It  was 
ind  at  the  north 
le  small  vessels, 

provision,  field 
iers  (that  tide  or 
that  lyes  by  the 
river  to  be  help- 
s  to  be  ready  by 
;  helpful  each  to 
Id  pieces  should 
>ther  side  of  the 
ver  the  river,  the 
i  when  they  per- 
we  then  fired  a 
r  their  guns,  and 

enter  the  town ; 
vessels  that  were 
,  that  the  enemy 
;re ;  alsoe  agreed 
iirurgeons  ashore, 
he  next  mommg 
ir  men,  but  by  a 


u 


till 


K 


i 


:. 


A 


(  "  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN   1690. 


S     «     I*     K  «  I 

Mil, 


X!  •■>  o  J  4    . 


\4 


storm  were  prevented,  few  of  the  boats  being  able  to  row  a 
head,  and  found  it  would  endanger  our  men  and  wett  our  armes, 
at  which  time  the  vessel  Capt.  Savage  was  in  went  ashore,  the 
tide  fell,  left  they  dry,  the  enemy  came  upon  them,  they  man- 
fully defended  themr.elves.  I  went  aboard  several  vessels,  and, 
though  with  some  difficulty  caused  some  small  vessels  that  had 
guns  to  weigh,  and  sent  some  boats  that  endeavoured  to  help 
them,  or  if  in  no  other  way  to  bring  off  the  men,  but  the  weather 
and  shoals  were  such  they  could  doe  them  no  good ;  the  enemy 
were  awed  by  some  guns  from  Sir  William,  that  the  shott  flew 
among  the  thickest  of  them,  alsoe  by  some  guns  from  Capt. 
Eldridge.  At  the  tides  coming  in  they  floated  and  all  got  off 
safe.  That  night,  aboard  Sir  William's  ship,  the  Freeh  prisoners 
informed  us  of  a  place  about  two  miles  beyond  the  town,  that 
would  be  more  commodious  for  landing  the  army,  which  I  then 
thought  might  be  best  (but  Capt.  Davis  saith  since,  wee  should 
not  amended  ourselves)  but  it  was  said  the  council  of  warr  had 
determined  the  place,  and  wee  had  not  time  to  call  them  together 
then,  and  it  would  be  safest  to  attend  order. 

The  next  day,  being  the  8th  of  Oct.  as  soon  as  the  bad 
weather  was  over,  and  the  tides  suited,  wee  landed  our  men, 
which  consideiing  how  farr  many  of  our  vessels  were  from  the 
shoar,  and  the  helps  wee  had,  never  more  men  were  landed  in 
less  time ;  but  the  flats  lay  off  soe  we  were  forced  to  go  into  the 
water,  seme  up  to  the  knees,  and  some  near  as  high  as  their 
wasts  upon  the  flatts.  I  drew  up  the  whole  army,  ^  Lich  con- 
sisted of  between  12  and  1,300  men,  caused  four  companys  to 
be  drawn  out  as  forlorns,  though  the  ground  would  not  admitt 
the  forlorn  and  main  battle  to  be  far  the  one  one  from  the 
other ;  this  being  done,  I  ordered  the  forlorns  to  advance  and 
to  march,  at  their  open  order,  towards  the  upland,  and  by  this 
time  the  tide  was  upon  the  ground  we  stood  on :  The  forlorn 
were  no  sooner  advanced  a  few  rods,  before  there  was  firing 
from  both  sides;  upon  one  wing  some  of  our  men  saw  the 
enemy  in  the  bushes  and  fired  first,  but  upon  the  other  wing, 
and  in  most  places,  the  enemy  had  the  first  shot  at  us ;  and 
from  a  village  over  a  creek  on  our  right  wing,  there  was  a  party 
gauled  us  considerably ;   upon  the  charge  our  officers  and  soul- 


f 


r 


i-i-mim 


ti 


,i 


\ 


: 


r' 


(    12    ) 
SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

diers  shewed  courage  and  resolution  enough,  yet  some  having 
given  an  order  to  fire  and  fall  off,  but  judging  under  the  present 
circumstances,  ordered  the  whole  body  to  shoot  and  run  up  at 
once,  which  they  did  with  one  consent,  that  it  was  hard  to  say 
which  company  went  up  first  or  fastest ;  upon  which  the  enemy 
having  generally  made  a  second  shott,  they  gave  way  at  once, 
and  by  the  convenience  of  swamps  and  bushes,  they  had  an 
opportunity  to  run  away  and  secure  themselves,  but  yet  in 
partys  out  of  every  comer  of  a  swamp  or  thicket  they  kept 
firing  upon  us ;  wee  continued  our  chase  and  march  towards  the 
town,  and  killed  some  of  the  enemy  as  wee  went.  Being  in- 
formed that  the  enemy  had  fired  at  our  men  out  of  a  bam,  and 
judging  there  were  some  in  it,  I  ordered  it  to  be  fired ;  we 
come  up  with  a  house  where  was  a  hogshead  of  claret  sett  at 
the  door,  and  seeing  our  souldiers  gather  about  it,  least  it  were 
poisoned,  or  might  otherwise  harm  our  men  or  hinder  our 
march,  I  ordered  the  head  to  be  knocked  out ;  drawing  nearer 
the  town  and  finding  the  army  too  much  featured,  and  not 
knowing  but  wee  might  be  met  withall  by  a  force  from  the 
town,  I  drew  up  a  good  part  of  our  forces  and  marcht  on ;  wee 
continued  our  march  until  it  was  dark,  two-thirds  of  the  army 
took  up  their  stand  by  a  creek,  where  was  a  house  and  some 
other  shelts ;  with  the  other  part  I  advanced  about  a  quarter  of 
a  mile,  that  we  might  the  better  secure  the  shoar  and  to  see  our 
vessels  that  were  to  come  into  the  river ;  there  we  took  up  our 
quarters,  placed  our  guards  and  sentinals,  and  did  what  was 
necessary  for  securing  ourselves  and  taking  notice  of  the  motion 
of  the  enemy ;  wee  then  took  the  advantage  of  the  house,  bam, 
hay  and  straw,  that  those  that  were  not  upon  duty  might  keep 
themselves  as  warm  as  they  could.  Making  inquiry  what  dam- 
age wee  had  received  from  the  enemy,  or  done  to  them,  found 
wee  had  not  above  4  killed  outright  at  our  landing,  nor  less 
than  60  officers  and  souldiers  wounded,  and  it  was  judged  wee 
had  killed  20,  some  say  30  of  the  enemy,  and  since,  have  been 
informed  their  hospital  is  full  of  wounded  men,  ana  it  is  said 
they  had  not  less  than  7  or  800  men  that  lay  undiscovered  to 
take  the  advantage  at  our  landing ;  all  things  considered,  it  was 
a  great  mercy  wee  had  no  more  damage  done  to  us.    The  same 


some  having 
r  the  present 
d  run  up  at 
hard  to  say 
;h  the  enemy 
way  at  once, 
,  they  had  an 
i,  but  yet  in 
:et  they  kept 
:h  towards  the 
it.    Being  in- 
jf  a  bam,  and 
be  fired;  we 
claret  sett  at 
t,  least  it  were 
)r  hinder  our 
irawing  nearer 
Lured,  and  not 
orce  from  the 
larcht  on ;  wee 
Is  of  the  army 
ause  and  some 
>ut  a  quarter  of 
and  to  see  our 
ire  took  up  our 
did  what  was 
of  the  motion 
>e  house,  bam, 
ity  might  keep 
uiry  what  dam- 
jto  them,  found 
Lnding,  nor  less 
'as  judged  wee 
ice,  have  been 
,  and  it  is  said 
mdiscovered  to 
isidered,  it  was 
us.    The  same 


:,.*' 


'■::l 


(  13  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA  IN    1690. 

evening,  having  information  of  a  Frenchman  that  had  surren- 
dered himself,  and  was  with  the  other  part  of  the  army,  I  sent 
for  him  and  stricOy  examined  him,  severely  threatened  him  if  I 
caught   him  in   a  lye,  told   him  wee  had  taken  other  French 
prisoners,  and  if  he  told  us  anything  that  was  false,  wee  should 
soon  find  it.    He  told  us  wee  should  cut  him  in  pieces  if  he  told 
us  anything  but  what  was  truth ;  he  informed  that  there  were 
about  600  men  that  were  in  the  swamp  at  our  coming  ashore, 
that  there  was  a  Captain  and  other  officers  killed,  besides  others 
that  he  saw,  that  the  French  had  900  men  from  the  town  more, 
upon  their  march  towaras  us,  that  they  were  over  the  river,  but 
seeing  wee  had  landed  our  men  soe  suddainly,  and  beaten  the 
French  off  the  ground,  and  were  marching  towards  the  town, 
that  they  retreated,  marcht  back  to  the  town,  or  at  least  to  the 
other  side  of  the  river :  He  said  the  Earl  of  Frontenack  was 
come  down,  the  governor  of  Mount  Royal  and  the  intendant ; 
that  a  great  many  souldiers  came  into  Cabeck  on  the  Thursday 
before,  a  great  many  with  the  governor  upon  Fryday,  and  more 
with  the  governor  of  Mount  Royal  on  Saturday,  and  maiiy 
since  :  he  alsoe  said  he  was  a  souldier  of  Mount  Royal  that  had 
run  away,  and  that  they  were  seeking  after  him  (which  we  after 
found  true).     He  alsoe  si.id  he  came  by  the  information  by  a 
Mount  Royal  souldier,  that  he  had  mett  withall,  which  acquainted 
him  they  had  left  but  50  souldiers  at  Mount  Royal,  and  added 
that  he  had  heard  some  French  officers,  at  the  next  house  to 
that  wee  then  were  at,  say  that  they  had  not  less  than  3,000 
men  in  the  town :  he  alsoe  said,  that  at  the  most  convenient 
place  of  the  souldiers  goeing  over  they  had  planted  8  guns. 
All  which  afterwards  we  had  confirmed.     That  others  might  not 
be  discouraged,  wee  told  him  he  was  sent  by  the  enemy  to  tell 
us  a  parcel  of  lies,  but  he  said  he  told  us  nothing  but  what  we 
should  find  true. 

After  this,  I  sent  for  the  rest  of  the  forces  to  come  over,  that 
wee  might  not  be  too  much  scattered,  and  sent  for  the  majors 
and  captains,  and  such  as  belonged  to  the  council  of  warr,  to 
consider  and  conclude  what  was  farther  to  be  done ;  after  some 
discourse,  it  was  concluded  by  the  whole,  that,  for  as  much  as 
the  vessels  were  not  come  up  the  river  with  our  ^upplyes  of  pro- 


1 


i" 


(   H  ) 

SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

vision,  ammunition,  and  other  necessaries,  neither  the  boats  for 
transporting  our  men,  that,  as  matters  were  thus  circumstanced, 
wee  were  not  in  a  capacity  to  advance,  but  hoped  the  vessels 
would  be  in  with  the  tide,  that  was  before  day,  and  that  if  they 
came,  wee  would  be  ready  to  be  helpfull  to  defend  them,  as  we 
expected  help  from  them;  but  the  winds  prevented  their 
coming,  as  the  masters  after  said.  Before  day,  contrary  to 
order,  and  without  my  knowledge,  they  landed  the  six  field 
pieces,  at  the  point  near  which  the  army  lay,  which  greatly 
clogg'd  us,  and  would  a  made  our  passidge  over  the  river  very 
difficult.  In  the  evening,  wee  see  Capt.  Gilbert  weigh  anchor, 
and  the  ships  of  warr  sail  up  to  the  town,  and  the  several  ships 
plying  their  guns  upon  the  town,  and  the  town  upon  them,  with 
utmost  diligence ;  but  the  reason  of  their  going  before  the  land 
army  were  over  the  river,  wee  understood  not  till  afterwards. 
The  cold  of  the  night,  and  our  souldiers  not  having  opportunity 
to  dry  themselves  until  the  next  day,  proved  very  prejuditiall  to 
them.  Upon  the  9th  of  October,  Sir  William's  ship  returned 
from  the  town  being,  as  wee  were  informed,  very  much  disin- 
abled,  having  been  very  smartly  engaged  with  the  town ;  alsoe 
were  informed,  that  the  men  of  warr  had  not  powder  enough 
left  for  two  rounds  apiece ;  but,  however,  supposing  they  had 
secured  and  would  supply  us  with  what  was  promised,  and  reck- 
ning  it  was  aboard  the  small  vessels  that  were  to  come  into  the 
river,  we  still  expected  their  coming  in,  and  that  day  advanced 
nearer  the  town,  where  wee  had  better  shelter  for  the  men,  and 
a  better  place  for  our  defence,  where  we  placed  out  our  guards, 
and  put  ourselves  in  the  best  posture  we  could  to  defend  our- 
selves and  offend  our  enemies,  if  they  had  come  upon  us ;  sent 
out  partys  to  gain  intelligence  and  make  discovery,  and  what 
provision  came  within  our  reach  was  killed  for  the  use  of  the 
army:  our  provisions  being  so  much  in  the  masteis  of  the 
vessels  power,  and  not  in  the  commissary-generals  order  and 
dispose,  proved  a  great  damidge,  for,  by  reason  hereof,  some 
souldiers  were  provided  for  and  others  wanted,  and  all  the  rum 
that  could  be  procured,  to  refresh  the  souldiers,  was  only  about 
60  gallons,  which  was  spared  from  Sir  William's  ship,  the  rest 
either  had  it  not,  or  would  not  own  they  had. 


(   15  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION   TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

Our  souldiers  dried  themselves,  gott  what  refreshment  they 
could,  and  hoped  the  vessels  might  come  in  the  evening  tide, 
wee  seeing  more  and  more  need  of  them,  being  more  and  more 
sensible  of  the  enemies  strength,  and  our  own  men,  many,  grow- 
ing sick  and  'infitt  for  service.  But  the  vessels  not  coming,  we 
stood  upon  our  guard  that  night,  but  found  it  exceedingly  cold, 
it  freezing  that  night  soe  that  the  next  morning  the  ice  would 
bear  a  man.  That  night  I  called  a  council,  demanded  their 
opinion  what  was  to  be  done,  for  it  would  be  to  no  purpose  to 
lye  there ;  one  in  behalf  of  sundries  others  said,  they  had  been 
together  considering  thereof,  and  that  for  as  much  as  we  had 
not  suitable  supplys  of  provisions  ashore,  little  or  no  ammuni- 
tion to  recruit  if  there  should  be  occasion,  that  our  men  were, 
many,  sick  and  wearied,  that  they  had  the  difficultys  of  the  river 
to  deal  with,  neither  boats  nor  vessels  to  help  us  in  our  going 
over,  that  we  had  8  great  guns  and  1000  men  at  the  river  side 
that  were  ready  for  us,  after  that,  a  steep  bank  and  narrow 
passage  to  win,  up  or  through  which  wee  should  not  a  been  able 
to  have  carried  our  great  guns,  neither  could  wee  have  carried 
them  over,  where  wee  might  have  had  them  for  use,  without  the 
help  of  our  boats  or  vessels,  after  all  this,  a  well  fortified  town 
with  three  times  our  number  of  men  within  to  encounter  with, 
having  but  one  chirurgeon  ashore,  though  three  were  ordered, 
the  increasing  cold  weather,  the  enemy  being  capable  and  had  a 
fair  opportunity,  had  we  gone  over,  by  reason  01  their  men  on 
our  backs  and  guns  by  Charles  river,  to  cut  off  all  supplys  and 
preventing  our  sending  off  soe  much  as  a  wounded  man ;  after 
some  discourse  on  these  matters  it  was  concluded,  as  I  under- 
stood, by  the  whole,  that  I  should  goe  on  board  that  morning  to 
Sir  Willi&m,  and  acquaint  him  with  our  difficultys  and  disappoint- 
ments, and  that  it  was  their  agreement,  if  he  were  willing,  that 
the  army  should  get  aboard  that  night  or  before  day,  and  that 
they  should  rest  and  refresh  themselves  a  day  or  two,  and  if  they 
found  they  had  ammunition  suitable,  they  were  ready  to  land  at 
any  other  place,  or  under  the  guns  at  the  town,  if  the  counsel 
should  soe  conclude ;  there  was  that  day  two  men  to  each  gun 
sent  ashore,  a  barrel  of  powder  for  the  great  guns,  and  half  a 
barrel  besides,  and  100  wt.  of  bullets  or  something  more. 


1?^ 


(   f6  ) 

SOCIETY   OK   COr.ONIAL   WARS. 


The  loth,  before  noon,  I  went  aboard  to  Slir  William, 
acquainted  him  how  matters  went  ashore,  and  of  the  desire  and 
conchision  of  the  officers ;  he  said  he  could  a  been  glad  we  had 
been  capable  to  have. proceeded,  but  consented  to  their  coming 
aboard,  and  saiil  the  boats  should  be  sent  ashore  before  day ; 
after  I  had  been  aboard  a  while,  wee  heard  gims  goe  off  ashore 
and  perceived  our  out  guards  were  charged  by  the  enemy ;  I 
was  going  off,  i  ,  perceiving  it  was  soon  over,  staid  a  while, 
and  in  the  afterri^on  went  ashore  again,  found  our  guards  and 
some  scouts  had  been  engaged  by  the  enemy ;  Major  Savage 
sent  reliefs  as  was  necessary,  but  being  informed  that  the  enemy 
might  be  looo  men  over  the  river,  he  sent  Capt.  Corwin  with 
orders  that  the  souldiers  should  make  an  orderly  retreat,  for  if 
the  enemy  were  numerous  it  were  better  to  prepare  to  meet 
them  in  the  plain  fields  than  among  the  swamps ;  wee  had  4 
men  wounded,  one  died  of  his  wounds,  and,  through  hast  in  the 
retreat,  a  small  drummer  left  his  drum  behind  him  :  they  did 
considerable  damage  to  the  enemy,  but  could  not  give  a  certain 
and  particular  account  thereof,  they  fired  several  houses  and 
barns  and  returned,  but  the  enemy  see  no  cause  to  follow  them. 
That  night  wee  kept  a  very  strong  and  strict  watch,  I  acquainted 
the  souldiers  of  their  coming  aboard  ;  after  midnight  several  of 
the  commanders  desired  we  might  remove  our  army  nearer  to 
the  place  where  we  were  to  goe  off,  accordingly  wee  silently 
marched  off  the  ground,  carryed  back  our  guns ;  when  I  had 
taken  care  that  wee  had  left  none  behind,  I  went  to  the  place 
where  they  were  ordered  to  march,  found  our  souldiers  too 
many  of  them  upon  the  beach  ready  to  goe  off  if  there  had  been 
an  opportunity ;  I  caused  them  to  be  drawn  up  upon  the  upland 
adjoining,  and  put  them  in  a  posture  for  service  if  they  had  been 
attacked  by  the  enemy,  for  wee  were  within  sight  and  hearing  of 
the  town.  Before  day  the  boats  began  to  row  ashore,  but  soe 
many  of  our  mei  drew  off  without  orders,  that  they  might  be 
ready  to  get  in  with  the  first,  I  foreseeing  the  confusion  that 
was  like  to  be,  and  perceiving  there  would  not  be  time  before 
it  was  light  to  get  all  off,  I  sent  the  boats  all  away  and  would  not 
let  any  goe  off  at  that  time. 

The  nth  day,  being  soe  near  as  to  heare  them  calling  one  to 


calling  one  to 


(   »7  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN   1690. 

another  at  the  town,  their  drumming  and  ringing  before  day,  ami 
other  noises  in  the  woods,  that  wee  had  reason  to  thinke  they 
intended  that  day  to  come  out  against  us  with  their  whole 
strength ;  in  the  morning  they  fired  several  great  guns  at  us  but 
did  us  no  harm,  our  men  all  that  day  standing  to  their  arms, 
drums  beating,  coulors  flying,  fair  in  sight  of  the  town  ;  we  saw 
several  of  the  enemy  not  far  from  us,  and  many  on  the  other 
side  of  the  river,  besides  what  was  in  the  town ;  it  is  said  that 
Capt.  Davis  reckoned,  what  they  had  in  the  town  and  that 
alarmed  us  and  guarded  their  shoars,  they  were  more  than  4000 
men  ;  they  sent  out  7  or  800  fresh  men  dayly  to  alarm  us  and 
to  watch  our  motions.  Designing  to  goe  off  that  night,  and 
there  being  like  to  be  a  good  opportunity,  I  called  several  of 
the  officers  and  acquainted  them  that  I  was  designed  to  send 
three  parties  of  souldiers  to  beat  up  the  swamps  that  were  round 
us,  and  beat  off  these  spies  that  we  had  reason  to  judge  lay  near 
us,  accordingly  ordered  three  16  files  to  be  detached  out  of  the 
several  companies,  and  sent  them  out  commanded  by  Capt. 
Barnet,  and  Capt.  Minot,  and  that  party  that  was  sent  out  upon 
our  right  win^  were  soon  engaged  ;  sent  Capt.  March  forthwith, 
who  had  a  good  company,  and  they  then  soon  made  the  enemy 
give  back,  but  they  continued  firing  briskly  at  each  other ;  I 
sent  out  several  companys  to  relieve  them ;  in  the  mean  time 
not  knowing  but  this  party  might  have  been  sent  to  occasion  the 
drawing  off  a  great  part  of  our  forces,  and  they  might  have  a 
greater  strength  near  us,  wherefore  I  sent  out  to  make  discovery, 
and  stood  ready  with  the  rest  of  the  army  to  fight  them  if  they 
had  come  up  with  us.  The  souldiers  were  ordered  to  keep 
firing  at  the  enemy,  in  and  about  the  swamps  near  us,  and  where 
they  saw  the  enemy,  until  it  was  dark ;  which  accordingly  they 
did. 

It  then  growing  near  night,  I  ordered  the  sick  men  to  be  car- 
ried aboard,  which  might  be  done  by  daylight,  because  two  or 
three  boats  might  goe  off  well  enough  unsuspected.  That  day, 
Alexander  Smart  came  ashore  with  a  commission  to  be  master 
gunner,  and  had  52  seamen  under  his  command  for  to  attend 
the  guns.  A  little  before  night,  I  called  him  and  acquainted 
him  that  the  army  was  to  goe  ofi*  that  night,  and  gave  him  a 


mwiirTiiw 


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(   i8  ) 

SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  W^RS. 

charge  about  the  guns,  in  particular  ordered  that  three  guns 
should  goe  off  before  any  men  went,  or  with  the  first,  the  other 
should   be  let  alone   to   the  last  and  kept  fc  r  to  defend  the 
soldiers  if  there  had  been  occasion,  and  to  be  put  aboard  the 
last  boats,  which  might  be  soon  done ;  he  made  me  answer  that, 
though  he  was  the  last  man  aboard,  he  «vould  see  all  the  guns 
off;  I  parted  with  him  then  and  never  see  him  afterwards  that  I 
knew  of;  I  then  acquainted  Major  Savage  and  other  officers, 
that  we  should  draw  off  half  each  regiment  at  a  time,  and  he 
should  draw  off  half  his  regiment  first,  and  ordered  that  those 
that  wont  in  the  fust  boats  should  be  helpful  to  draw  down 
those  three  guns  that  were  to  goe  first  aboard,  which  they  did, 
and  concluded  they  were  gone  aboard.     It  growing  very  dark, 
notwithstanding  I  had  ordered  the  officers  to  keep  the  souldiers 
to  their  arms,  many  precipitately  and  disorderly  drew  down  to 
the  beach.,  four  times  more  than  had  leave,  and  a  very  great 
noise  was  made,  which  I  was  much  troubled  at^  and  was  willing 
to  go  down  to  see  if  I  could  still  them ;  I  called  to  Major  Ward, 
ordered  him  he  should  do  whac  he  could  to  keep  the  souldiers 
to  their  arms,  and  not  to  move  without  order,  which  he  soon 
found   too  I:ard  for  him  to  doe ;    I  ordered  some  souldiers  to 
keep  the  rest  from  crowding  down  until  those  were  gone  off  that 
were  upon  the  flats ;  I  called  to  them  to  he  silent,  but  either  of 
these  were  little  regarded,  for  ihe  croud  and  the  noise  both 
increased ;  the  seamen  calling  out  foi  such  souldiers  as  oelonged 
to  their  vessels,  and  the  souldiers  for  such  boats  as  came  from 
the  vessels  they  belonged  to,  hundreds  in  the  water  up  to  the 
knees  and  higher,  pressing  into  boats,  the  seamen  and  they  con- 
tending, by  reason  whereof  I  see  boats  were  like  to  be  five 
times  longer  a  loading  than  they  needed ;  I  saw  a  necessity  of 
my  going  off  to  the  boats,  went  aboard  a  small  boat  belonging 
to  Mr.  Winser,  conimanded  silence,  ordered  the  boats  to  take 
the  men  in,  as  they  came,  and  to  carry  them  to  the  first  vessel 
they  came  at,  which  was  not  minded  by  many,  but  as  I  was 
forced  to  goe  from  boat  to  boat  and  see  it  done,  for  otherways 
some  of  the  seamen  would  throw  the  souldiers  overboard  if  they 
did  not  belong  to  them,  or  the  souldiers  would  have  pres"  d  into 
boats  to  have  sunk  them.     After  my  being  at  the  point  not  less 


(  19  ^ 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA  IN    169c. 

than  three  hours,  the  men  were  most  off,  and  everything  still 
quiet ;  the  boats  were  all  gone,  I  began  to  think  because  I  see 
none  a  coming  they  thought  the  men  were  all  off.  I  questioned 
how  many  men  were  upon  the  point,  some  said  150,  wee  judged 
about  100  or  120,  I  told  them  I  would  see  if  any  boats  were 
coming,  rowed  off  and  heard  several  boats  rowing,  went  to  them 
and  ordered  them  to  hasten  to  the  shoar ;  and  though  I  thought 
there  might  be  enough  to  take  off  all  the  men,  yet  they  should 
rather  have  too  many  than  want,  I  told  them  I  would  go  to  the 
next  vessels  that  had  boats  aboard  and  send  them  away,  which  I 
did  with  all  speed.  Being  now  well  satisfied  our  men  weie  safe 
off,  I  went  on  board  Sir  William's  ship,  I  acquainted  how  matters 
were,  told  him  I  hoped  the  guns  were  off,  for  did  not  see  them 
when  I  came  away ;  he  made  answer  he  questioned,  for  the 
master  gunner  had  been  aboard  long  before,  and  could  not  give 
account  they  were  off,  immediately  came  one  of  the  gunners 
aboard,  with  a  gun,  and  said  that  the  guns  were  all  off.  I  then 
being  satisfied  that  both  men  and  guns  were  all  off,  I  went  to  my 
cabbin,  to  take  my  rest,  having  had  but  little  for  3  days  and 
nights  before.  Soon  after,  Mr.  Bearing  came  aboard,  who 
came  off  in  the  last  parcel  of  boats,  and  acquainted  some  of  the 
oflicers  and  divers  others,  that  there  was  5  of  the  guns  ashore, 
that  they  had  been  und«r  water,  but  appeared  when  he  came 
away,  they  did  not  acquaint  Sir  William  nor  myself  of  it,  until 
the  next  morning,  for  wee  had  come  off  undiscovered,  and  there 
was  4  or  5  hours  time  that  they  might  been  easily  and  safely 
fetcht,  but  that  was  neglected ;  they  sent  in  the  morning,  but 
then  it  was  too  late. 

The  1 2th  day  a  council  was  called,  several,  but  not  all  the 
commanders  aboard,  they  discoursed  of  landing  at  the  town,  or 
at  Orleance,  many  of  the  officers  declared  that  many  of  their 
men  were  sick  and  unfitt  for  service ;  however,  it  was  agreed 
that  the  men  should  have  a  day  or  two's  time  to  refresh  them- 
selves, and  to  inquire  what  capacity  wee  were  in  for  a  further 
attempt,  and  some  time  should  be  spent  on  Monday  in  prayer, 
to  seek  God's  direction,  but  the  weather  prevented  our  meeting, 
and  wee  necessitated  to  weigh  and  fall  down  to  Orleance,  many 
vessels  drove  from  their  anchors,  and  were  in  danger  of  being 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


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drove  on  upon  the  town  ;  wee  then  sent  ashore  about  our  cap- 
tives, but  winds  and  weather  after  proved  such,  as  wee  had 
never  opportunity  to  come  together,  but  the  whole  fleet  were 
scattered,  and  such  exceeding  hard  cold  and  windy  weather  set 
in  for  3  weeks  or  a  month  together,  as  I  never  was  in  so  much 
together. 

This  narrative  given  into  the  honourable  council  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts, this  27th  Nov.  1690. 

^.  John  Walley. 

The  land  army's  failing,  the  enemy's  too  timely  intelligence, 
lyeing  3  weeks  within  three  days  sail  of  the  place,  by  reason 
whereof  they  had  opportunity  to  bring  in  the  whole  strength  of 
their  country,  the  shortness  of  our  ammunition,  our  late  setting 
out,  our  long  passidge,  and  many  sick  in  the  army,  thase  may 
be  reckned  as  some  of  the  reasons  of  our  disappointment. 

Some  question  our  courage,  that  wee  proceeded  no  further  ; 

as  things  were  circumstanced,  others  would  a  questioned  our 

prudence,  if  wee  had ;  were  it  a  fault,  it  was  the  act  of  a  council 

of  warr ;    wee  must  undergoe  the  censures  of  many :    In  the 

mean  time,  our  consciences  doe  not  accuse  us,  neither  are  we 

most,  yea  allmost  all,  of  us,  afraid  or  ashamed  to  answer  our 

actions,  before  any  that  can  or  shall  call  us  to  an  account  for  the 

same,  nor  unwilling  to  give  any   farther  satisfaction  to  any 

reasonable  men  that  shall  desire  it. 

John  Walley. 
Boston,  the  27th  Nov.  1690. 


MAJOR  JOHN  WALLEY. 

Major  John  Walley,  born  in  England,  was  the  son  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Walley,  of  St  Mary,  Whitechapcl,  London. 

He  became  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery 
Company  in  167 1,  and  a  freeman  in  1673 ;  first  sergeant.  Ancient 
and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  1676 ;  b  lieutenant  in  1678  ; 
a  captain  in  1679, 1699,  and  1 707,  and  major  of  the  Boston  Regi- 
ment in  1699.  An  incorporator  of  Bristol,  R.I.,  for  which  he 
was  an  as.<:istant  of  the  governor  of  Plymouth  Colony,  1 683-1 686, 
and  named  as  councillor  under  Andros.    He  was  commissioned 


V;   . 


;  about  our  cap- 
ch,  as  wee  had 
whole  fleet  were 
indy  weather  set 
•  was  in  so  much 

icil  of  the  Mas- 
OHN  Wallev. 

nely  intelligence, 
place,  by  reason 
hole  strength  of 

our  late  setting 
army,  these  may 
)ointment. 
ided  no  further ; 

questioned  our 
;  act  of  a  council 
if  many :  In  the 
IS,  neither  are  we 
:d  to  answer  our 
n  account  for  the 
:isfaction  to  any 

John  Wallev. 


e  son  of  the  Rev. 
don. 

onorable  Artillery 
sergeant,  Ancient 
:utenant  in  1678; 
'  the  Boston  Regi- 
LI.,  for  which  he 
ilony,  1 683-1 686, 
vas  commissioned 


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MAJOR   JOHN    WALLEY. 


(    21    ) 
THE  EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN   1690. 

captain  of  the  Bristol  military  company  to  June,  1684,  and 
became  a  member  of  the  Council  of  War  of  Plymouth  Colony, 
and  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  the  land  forces  in  the 
1690  expedition. 

Under  the  second  charter  a  councillor  in  1 693-4,  and  from 
1696  to  1706.  A  commissioner  for  war  1693-4,  and  appointed 
a  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Judicature  and  with  the  military 
title  of  major-general  in  his  later  yeavs.  He  died  11  Jan., 
1711-12,  in  Boston,  and  was  buried  on  the  17th  in  the  tomb  of 
the  Wr.lley  family  in  the  Granary  Burying  Ground. 


AN     ACCOUNT  OF    THE     LATE  ACTION   OF     THE     NEW   ENGLANDERS 
UNDER     THE    COMMAND     OF    SIR    WILLIAM     PHIPS    AGAINST     THE 


FRENCH      AT     CANADA  —  SENT     IN 
THOMAS     SAVAGE     OF     BOSTON     IN 
PRESENT      AT     THE     ACTION)      TO 


SAVAGE     IN     LONDON 


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A  LETl'ER  FROM  MAJOR 
NEW  ENGLAND,  (WHO  WAS 
HIS      BROTHER      MR     PEREZ 

Boston,  Feb.  2,  1690-81. 
Loving  Brother, 

As  for  news,  here  is  very  little,  only  about  our  defeatment  at  Canada  ;  and 
least  some  ill  tongue  should  abuse  any  with  you,  this  will  give  you  a  brief 
narrative  of  it.  We  went  from  Boston,  thirty-two  shios  and  other  vessels 
with  about  2,000  men,  with  four  months  provision  and  ammunition,  little 
enough,  but  had  nut  one  man  for  a  pilot.  When  we  came  to  the  river, 
(which  we  had  a  hundred  leagues  to  go  up,  before  we  came  into  the  river, 
which  was  the  occasion  of  our  having  a  long  passage,  but  at  length  we  got 
up  to  it ;)  a  council  was  call'd,  to  think  what  was  best  to  be  done.  It  was 
agreed,  that  the  soldiers  should  be  put  ashore  upon  a  beach  about  two  miles 
from  the  town,  and  to  get  as  near  the  town  as  we  could,  and  to  encamp  that 
night,  for  there  was  a  river  between  us  and  the  town,  that  waj  knee  deep  at 
low  water,  whrch  we  were  to  go  over  to  the  town  ;  and  in  the  night  they 
were  to  send  in  some  small  vessels  that  had  guns,  with  ammunition  and  pro- 
vision for  us,  and  to  bring  our  field-pieces  ashore  with  them,  to  secure  our 
passage  over  the  river  ;  and  when  we  were  over  the  river,  then  the  four  great 
ships  should  fall  upon  the  town  to  batter  it.  Accordingly  we  landed,  I  being 
the  first  field-ofHcer  ashore.  We  landed  about  1,209  men,  and  as  soon  as  we 
came  ashore,  at  the  side  of  the  beach,  was  a  swamp,  a  bog  overgrown  with 
wood,  where  lay  an  ambuscade  of  about  600  French  who  gall'd  us  at  our 

'  The  title  of  this  work  published  in  England  the  next  year  shows  the  author  to 
have  been  Maj.  Thomas  Savage,  and  not  Ephraim  Savage  his  brother,  as  stated  by 
Mr.  Justin  Winsor,  in  the  "  Memorial  History  of  Boston,"  Vol.  II.,  p.  99. 


.  "•-^li'rtMSalMffiak.:. 


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(    22    ) 
SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

landing,  but  our  men,  running  very  briskly  on  .  hem,  beat  up  their  ambuscade, 
and  followed  them  a  great  was  ;  all  our  men  in  their  landing  waded  some  up 
to  their  middle,  none  less  than  their  knees.     By  that  we  had  rallied  the  sun 
was  near  set ;   so  we  mached  about  half  a  mile  from  the  river,  and  so  en- 
camped.    Our  men  had  spent  the  greatest  part  cf  our  ammunition  in  this 
skirmish,  having  taken  ashore  with  them  about  three  quartets  of  a  pound  of 
powder  a  man,  and  about  fifteen  or  eighteen  shots,  and  but  two  biskets  a 
man ;    and  the  reason  why  they  carried  no  more  was  because  the  small 
vessels  were  to  carry  it  into  the  river  that  night.     We  had  in  this  skirmish 
about  five  men  killed  outright,  and  about  twenty  men  wounded.     About 
midnight  they  sent  us  ashore  six  field-pieces,  about  800  pounds  a  piece,  which 
we  could  not  tell  what  to  do  with,  it  being  a  marshy  place,  and  several  small 
gullies  to  go  over.    We  sent  aboard  for  ammunition  and  provisions,  but  they 
sent  us  half  a  barrel  of  powder  which  what  that  was  you  may  judge  amongst 
near  1,200  men,  and  sent  no  provision.    We  were  no  sooner  ingaged  at  our 
coming  ashore,  but  contrary  to  orders,  those  four  ships  of  war,  as  they  called 
them  wayed  their  anchors,  and  fell  to  battering  the  town  at  random,  and  then 
spent  the  greatest  part  of  their  ammunition  by  that  time  they  got  back  ;  the 
admiral  being,  as  they  say,  forced  to  leave  their  best  cable  and  anchor  behind 
him  and  get  back  again.     We  met  with  several  skirmishes  from  the  enemy 
while  we  were  ashore,  but  we  received  little  hurt.     We  had  some  that  we 
took  informed  us  that  if  we  had  come  but  four  days  sooner  they  had  not 
above  600  men  in  town,  but  being  so  long  in  the  river  before  we  got  up,  they 
had  notice  of  us,  and  had  sent  for  all  their  strength  thither,  so  that  there  was 
now  in  the  town  3,000  men,  and  eight  irundred  that  were  near  us  in  swamps 
and  woods,  to  keep  us  continually  alarmed.      But  sending  aboard  often  to 
see  to  get  some  victuals,  for  we  could  meet  with  little  ashore,  the  enemy 
having  drove  their  cattle  into  the  woods,  they  at  length  sent  us  word  that 
they  had  no  more  ammunition  to  spare,  but  sent  us  a  bisket  cake  a  man,  and 
ordered  that  we  should  come  aboard  again,  (for  they  understood  that  was 
not  a  good  place  to  set  upon  the  town,  being  a  very  strong  place,  walled  all 
round,  and  a  battery  of  guns  at  our  coming  over  the  river,)  and  did  send 
fifty  seamen  to  look  after  the  six  field-pieces.     At  night  we  began  to  go  on 
board,  and  I,  with  my  regiment,  was  to  go  aboard  first,  by  the  Lieutenant- 
General's  order,  because  we  were  ashore  first.      We  did  so,  and  got  well 
aboard,  and  by  twelve  of  the  clock  were  all  aboard.      But  how  it  cume  to 
pass  I  know  not,  but  some  say  it  was  the  Lieutenant-General's  fault,  but  I 
rather  think  the  seamen's,  that  was  to  look  after  the  guns,  but  there  was  five 
of  the  field-pieces  left  on  shore.     And  then  when  all  was  on  board,  because 
provisions  was  scearce,  we  thought  good  to  make  the  best  of  our  own  way 
back  again.     So  that  we  are  all  well  arrived,  only  two  vessels  cast  away, 
nine  of  the  men  lost,  one  ship  burnt  but  saved  all  the  men  and  four  vessels 
not  yet  come  in,  whom  we  believe  are  beat  of  the  coast. 

You  will  without  doubt  hear  many  reflections  upon  Lieutenant-General 
Walley  ;    but  he  is  not  guilty  of  what  they  charge  him  with ;    but  there  are 


mMmmsm^m^ 


s. 

up  their  ambuscade, 
ding  waded  some  up 
:  had  rallied  the  sun 
be  river,  and  so  en- 
ammunition  in  this 
arteis  of  a  pound  of 
i  but  two  biskets  a 
because  the  small 
bad  in  this  skirmish 
I  wounded.  About 
>unds  a  piece,  which 
:e,  and  several  small 
provisions,  but  they 
may  jvdge  amongst 
oner  ingaged  at  our 
war,  as  they  called 
It  random,  and  then 
they  got  back  ;  the 
!  and  anchor  behind 
les  from  the  enemy 
'.  had  some  that  we 
ooner  they  had  not 
bre  we  got  up,  they 
it,  so  that  there  was 
;  near  us  in  swamps 
ing  aboard  often  to 
ashore,  the  enemy 
1  sent  us  word  that 
cet  cake  a  man,  and 
nderstood  that  was 
ng  place,  walled  all 
ver,)  and  did  send 
we  began  to  go  on 
by  the  Lieutenant- 
i  so,  and  got  well 
But  how  it  came  to 
neral's  fault,  but  I 
5,  but  there  was  five 
i  on  board,  because 
ist  of  our  own  way 
vessels  cast  away, 
len  and  four  vessels 


a' 


Ueutenant-General 
rith ;    but  there  are 


-^!^^^SmS3ES3KV9BP 


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BOSTON    HARBOR,    1694. 


(23   ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN    1690. 

some  who  to  make  themselves  faultless  lay  the  fault  upon  him,  which  might 
be  easily  evinced  to  a  national  man.  We  killed  of  the  French  at  our  com- 
ing ashore  above  thirty,  as  some,  who  have  made  a  computation  of  what 
they  saw  in  several  places  lay  dead,  say.  We  lay  not  far  from  tho  shore, 
and  the  General  sent  his  boat  ashore  with  an  old  french  woman  to  treat 
about  change  of  prisoners,  which  we  did,  and  changed  17  we  had  taken, 
for  17  english  prisoners  that  had  been  with  them  a  pretty  while.  Our 
prisoners  informed  us  of  the  truth  of  the  quality  of  men  in  the  town,  as  is 
above  ;  and  that  if  we  had  gone  over  the  river,  we  had  certainly  been  dis- 
Iroyed  ;  so  that  I  looked  there  was  a  Providence  of  God  in  it ;  yet  if  Ihcy 
had  send  ammunition  and  provision  we  had  certainly  been  with  them. 

Thomas  Savage. 


MAJOR   THOMAS   SAVAGE. 

Major  Thomas  Savage  was  born  and  baptized  in  Boston,  1 7 
May,  1640,  a  son  of  Major  Thomas  and  Faith  (Hutchinson) 
Savage,  a  grandson  of  the  famous  Ann  Hutchinson.  He  married 
about  1 664  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Joshua  Scottow.  He  became 
a  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company 
in  1665  ;  first  sergeant  in  1674,  and  ensign  in  168 1.  A  leader 
in  the  1690  expedition.  He  held  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel 
of  the  Boston  Regiment  in  1702.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Old  South  Church,  and  died  2  July,  1705,  and  was  buried  on  the 
5  th  at  about  seven  in  the  evening,  escorted  by  the  military 
through  the  principal  street  of  the  town,  thronged  with  the 
people. 


EXTRACTS    FROM   CHIEF  JUSTICE   SAMUEL  SEWALL's  DIARY. 

Friday,  March  21,  i6ff.  This  day  Capt.  Townsend  is  appointed 
Comander  in  Chief. 

Satterday,  March  22.  Sir  William  Phips  offers  himself  to  go  in  person ; 
the  Govcrnour  sends  for  me,  and  tells  me  of  it,  I  tell  the  Court ;  they  send 
for  Sir  William  who  accepts  to  goe,  and  is  appointed  to  Comand  the  Forces  ; 
Major  Townsend  relinquishes  with  Thanks.  Sir  William  had  been  sent  to  at 
first ;  but  some  feared  he  would  not  goe  ;  others  thought  his  lady  could  not 
consent.  Court  makes  Sir  William  free,  and  Swear  him  Major  Generall,  and 
several  others.    Adjourn  to  Boston,  Wednesday  14  night  one  aclock. 

March  24,  i6§J.  Eight  Companies  and  Troops  Train.  I  goe  into  the 
field,  pray  with  the  South  Company,  Exercise  them  in  a  few  Distances, 
Facings,  Doublings  ;  before  which  Thanked  them  for  their  Respect  in  men- 
tioning me  when  in  England,  warning  the  Company  in  my  Name  ;    and  told 


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SOCIETY   OF   COLONIAL   WARS. 

them  the  place  T  was  in  required  iiiore  Time  and  Strength  than  I  had,  lo 
took  leave  of  them. 

July  35.  Major  Nath'l  Saltonitall,  and  Major  Tho.  Henchman  Iply 
themselves  to  the  Council,  shewing  that  if  so  many  be  press'd  for  Canada  as 
the  Order  mentions,  the  fronteeirs  will  draw  in,  and  they  themselves  profess 
they  will  do  so.  Major  Saltonstall  comes  no  farther  than  Charlestown, 
because  of  the  Small  Pocks.  Major  Gcnerall,  Mr.  Addington,  and  self  gne 
over  and  give  him  a  list. 

Tuesday,  July  29,  1690.  This  is  a  day  of  much  Thunder  and  plenteous 
Rain  which  prevents  the  Souldiers  for  Canada  their  mustering  as  was 
intended.  Cous.  Quinsey  as  I  sat  with  him  bid  me  shut  the  door,  and  ask'd 
if  I  had  done  that,  meaning  his  Will.  Mr.  Moodey  visited  him  this  day- 
He  is  very  low. 

Monday,  Augt.  4.  Cousin  Quinsey  signs,  seals  and  publishes  his  Will, 
Capt.  Jacob  Eliot,  Theophilus  Frary  and  my  self  Witnesses.  Then  went 
with  Major  Walley  to  Dorchester  to  meet  Gov''.  Hinkley,  Coniissioner  for 
Plimouth,  but  CoT!  cticul  and  Rhode-Island  failing,  nothing  could  be  done 
to  purpose :  but  urgd  Gov'.  Hinckley  to  furnish  us  with  a  hundred  Men : 
hope  he  will  send  fifty.  Din'd  with  Mr.  Stoughton.  Went  and  saw  Capt. 
Withington's  Company,  16  files,  4  deep,  drawn  up  by  the  Meetinghouse, 
gave  them  a  French  Crown  to  drink.  Took  Mrs.  Mills's  Acknowledgment 
of  a  Deed  as  she  lay  abed.  Mrs.  Pierce  buried  near  the  Tomb  of  her 
Grandfather  Cotton. 

Friday,  Augt.  8,  1690.  Dept.  Governour,  Major  Generall,  Major  Richards, 
Mr.  Russell,  Major  Hutchinson,  Major  Phillips,  Mr.  Addington  and  self 
went  to  Nantasket  to  see  the  Lieut.  Generall  Muster  his  Souldiers  on  Georges 
Island  ;  went  on  board  the  Six  Friends ;  urgd  that  might  sail  by  the  first 
oportunity  ;  came  up  to  Town.  And  about  11  or  12  at  night  Major  Hutch- 
ins  on,  Mr.  Addington  and  S.S.  with  Mr.  Eyre  went  down  again  carrying 
Carriages  for  field-pieces.  Anchor'd  at  Nantasket  about  3.  When  day, 
Augt.  g***,  was  come,  went  on  board  ;  the  Generall  pursuaded  Him  to  make 
Signs  of  Sailing  ;  then  with  the  Lieut.  Generall  visited  the  Ships  of  War  and 
other  Vessels,  directed  as  to  the  number  of  Souldiers  each  vessel  was  to  nave 
and  order'd  to  make  Signs  of  Sailing.  Wind  comes  fresh  from  Sea  ;  Go  and 
dine  at  Hull  with  Sir  William  [Phips]  and  his  lady  and  Mr.  Hale :  Come  on 
board,  order  is  given  to  unmore,  to  be  in  a  readiness  if  the  wind  should 
spring  up.  About  6  wind  veer'd  ami  the  Fleet  came  to  sail,  Four  Ships  of 
War,  and  28  other.  Brought  up  my  Lady  from  Hull.  Got  up  to  Town 
about  9  at  night ;    cili'd  at  Cous.  Quinsey's  whom  I  found  very  ill. 

Sept.  25.  A  printed  sheet  entituled  publick  Occurences  comes  out,  which 
gives  much  distaste  because  not  Licensed  ;  and  because  of  the  passage 
referring  to  the  French  King  and  the  Maquas. 


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THE  EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA  IN    1690- 

Fri.  Nov.  7,  1690.  —  News  of  Canada  came  from  Salem.  Shute  comes 
into  Boston  that  night  or  next  morning,  hath  thrown  over  aboard  more  than 
Sixty  persons  since  his  going  hence,  most  Indians  of  Plimouth.  Town  much 
fill'd  with  the  discourse,  and  some  cast  blame  on  Major  Wallcy ;  v.-erc  nine 
weelts  getting  thethcr  and  landed  not  be.'ore  the  7"*  or  S**"  of  October. 

Nov.  21.  1  accompanied  Capt.  Hill  to  the  Funeral  of  Joseph  Asgood,  or 
Asbud,  of  Almsbury,  a  souldier  of  about  18  years  old  who  died  fit  Fort-hill  of 
the  Small-Pocks.  Mr.  I^aurence,  Capt.  Davis's  Son-in-Law,  is  buried  this 
day  ;  so  that  Five  own  Sisters  are  now  Widows.  'Twas  Tu'isday,  the  18""  of 
November,  that  I  heard  of  the  death  of  Capt.  Stephen  Greenleaf,  Lieut. 
James  Smith  and  Ensign  W'".  Longfellow,  Serg'.  Increase  Pilsbury,  who 
with  Will  Mitchell,  Jabez  Musgro,  and  four  more  were  drown'd  at  Cape 
Briloon  on  Friday  night  the  last  of  October." 


lishes  his  Will, 
!S.  Then  went 
Coinissioner  for 
[  could  be  done 
hundred  Men: 
i  and  saw  Capt. 
Meetinghouse, 
cknowledgment 
e  Tomb  of  her 

Major  Richards, 
ngton  anu  self 
liers  on  Georges 
sail  by  the  first 
it  Major  Hutch- 
again  carrying 
3.  When  day, 
id  Him  to  make 
liips  of  War  and 
issel  was  to  have 
m  Sea  ;  Go  and 
Hale:  Come  on 
le  wind  should 
I,  Four  Ships  of 
ot  up  to  Town 
d  very  ill. 


SEAL  OF  SIR  WM.   PHIPS. 


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ROSTER. 


Conmandar'lii'Chlet. 
SIR   WILLIAM    PHIFS. 

Major  John  VValley Barnstable. 

Major  Thomas  Savage Boston. 

Major  Nathaniel  Wade' '.  Jiedford. 

General's  Clerk,  Nathaniel  Barnes,  «  Boston. 

Chaplains. 

Rev.  John  Hale* heverly. 

Rev.  John  Wise* ipg^j^h. 

Rev.  Grindal  Rawson  * Mendon. 

Rev.  John  Emerson' ".  charlestown. 

SurgeoHA. 

Dr.  John  Barton' giilem. 

Dr.  David  Bennett' Rowley. 

Dr.  James  Holgate. 

Dr.  George  Jackson Marblehead. 

COMMISSiONBD  OPPiCERS 

OF  THB 

euex  Regiment. 

Major  Samuel  Ward  (d.  1690),  Ipswich. 

Capt.  Willmjh  Raymond Beverly. 

Capt.  Nathaniel  NoRDEN Marblehead. 

Ensign  Samuel  Balch Beverly. 

Capt.  William  Wormall  (Wormwood?)  .     .     .  Lynn. 

Capt.  (  i'ORGE  Corwin Salem 

Capt.  Stephen  Greenleaf"  (d.  Oct.,  1690)      .  Newbury. 

Capt.  John  March Newbury. 

Lieut.  Jonathan  Allen Salisbury. 

Lieut.  Stephen  Johnson Andover. 

Lieut.  James  Smith  (d.  Oct.,  1690)    .     .  Newbury. 

Ensign  William  LoNGFELLOw(d.  Oct.,  1690),  Newbury. 

Ensign  Lawrence  Hart Newbury. 


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THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN    1690. 

Capt.  Philip  Neijson    . Rowley. 

Lieut.  Abel  Plaits Ron  ley. 

Capt.  Daniel  King Salem. 

Ensign  John  King Salem. 

MiddUMX  RtgimcBt. 

Major  Nathaniel  Wade,  Medford. 

C^pt.  Efhbmm  Savage Reading. 

Lieut.  Jonathan  Poole Reading. 

Lieut.  Nathaniel  Goodwin Reading. 

Capt.  John  Call  • Charlestown. 

Capt.  Joseph  Wilson  • Maiden. 

Capt.  EBE^fEZER  Prout Concord. 

Lieut.  Nathaniel  Barsham Watertown. 

Ensign  Joseph  Winn Wobum. 

Capt.  Jonathan  Danforth Billerica. 

Suffolk  RaglmcBt.  * 

Major  Thomas  Savage,  Boston. 

Capt.  John  Wing Boston. 

Capt.  Andrew  Gardner Muddy  River. 

Capt.  Edward  Willev Boston. 

Capt.  Thomas  Barnard Boston. 

Lieut.  Ephraim  Sale  (d.  2  Dec,  1690)    .  Boston. 

Capt.  Ephraim  Hunt Weymouth. 

Capt.  Thomas  Vose Milton. 

Capt.  John  Withington Dorchester. 

Capt.  George  Minot  »  (d.      1690)    ....  Dorchester. 

Lieut.  Benjamin  Willard Lancaster. 

Ensign  Samuel  Sumner. 

Capt.  Thomas  Andrews  (d.  25  Nov.,  1690)     .  Hingham. 

Lieut.  John  Chubbuck  (d.  26  Nov.,  1690)  Hingham. 

Ensign  Joseph  Joy Hingham. 

Plymouth  Regiment. 

Capt.  Joseph  Sylvester  (d.         1690)     .     .     .  Scituate. 

Lieut.  John  Witherell  (d.         1690)     .  Scituate. 

Ensign  John  Stetron  (d.         1690)    .     .  Scituate. 

Ensign  Sami«x  Lucas Plymouth. 


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SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

Capt.  John  Gorham Barnstable. 

Lieut.  Jabez  Snow  (d.  27  Dec,  1690)      .  Eastham. 

Ensign  James  Claghorn Barnstable. 

Capt.  Samuel  Gallup Bristol. 

Lieut.  Preserved  Abei Rehoboth. 

Ensign  Solomon  Smith Rehoboth. 

Indian  Company. 

Lieut.  Thomas  Swift Sandwich. 

*  Maj.  Nathaniel  Wade,  born  about  164S,  was  a  son  of  Jonathan  and  Susannah 
Wade,  of  Ipswich.  He  married,  31  Oct.,  167a,  Mercy,  yoang:est  daughter  of  Gov, 
Simon  Br-^dstreet.  He  was  a  freeman  in  1685  and  representative  in  169a  from  Med. 
ford,  where  he  resided  and  where  he  died  aS  Nov.,  1707. 

*  Nathaniel  Barnes  was  of  Boston  as  early  as  1675,  and  in  1679  was  diosen  clerk 
of  the  writs.  He  occupied  about  this  time  a  small  room  in  tho  town  house  at  the 
west  end,  which  was  afterward  occupied  by  another  scrivener  of  note,  John  Hayward, 
the  Notary  Public. 

s  Rev.  John  Hale  was  the  eldest  child  of  Robert  Hale,  of  CharlestowM,  and  born 
there  3  June,  1636.  A  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  1657,  he  married  (i)  Rebecca 
Byley,  (a)  Sarah  Noyes,  (3)  Elizabeth  Clark,  and  was  settled  at  Beverly  as  minister. 
He  died  ij  May,  1700, 

*  Rev.  John  Wise  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Thompson)  Wise,  of  Rox- 
bury,  and  born  there  15  Aug,,  165a.  A  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  1673,  he  mar- 
ried Abigail  Gardner,  of  Roxbury,  First  settled  at  Branford,  Conn.,  as  a  chaplain 
under  Major  Treat,  of  Connecticut,  he  participated  in  King  Philip's  war,  after  which 
he  was  a  few  years  at  Hatfield.  He  was  ordained  at  Ipswich,  in  Chebacco  Parish 
(Essex),  and  suffered  imprisonment  with  Appleton  at  the  hands  of  Andro.i,  and  was 
also  fined.    He  died  8  April,  I7a5. 

*  Rev.  Grindal  Rawson  was  the  son  of  Edward  and  Rachel  (Pirni.)  Rawson, 
of  Newbury  and  Boston.  He  was  born  in  Newburj'  33  Jan.,  1659,  and  named  after 
Grindal,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  His  father  was  the  Secretary  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Colony,  1650-1686. 

Grindal  was  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1678,  and  was  the  second  minister  at  Men- 
don,  ordained  7  April,  16S4.  ^  freeman  in  1683,  he  married  Susanna,  daughter  of 
Rev,  T'ihn  White,  of  Mediield,  and  died  6  Feb.,  1715. 

*  Kev.  John  Emerson  was  nephew  of  Rev,  John  Emerson,  of  Gloucester,  and 
gradutted  at  Harvard  College  in  1678.  He  was  a  teacher  at  Newbury,  Gloucester, 
and  Cbarlestown,  and  was  chaplain  of  the  forces  under  Capt,  Jeremiah  Swayne  at 
Berwick  in  1689. 

He  was  made  freeman  in  1691.  In  1699  he  was  appointed  a  teacher  at  Salem,  where 
he  taught  till  his  death  10  March,  171a. 

1  Dr.  John  Barton,  son  of  John,  of  Huntingdonshire,  England,  came  to  New  Eng- 
land in  167a.  He  was  originally  an  [apothecary,  but  afterwards  a  physician,  and  as 
such  was  employed  as  an  expert  to  examine  the  persons  accused  of  witchctait  in 
169a.    He  died  at  B    -badoes  in  December,  1694,  ^  tradition  states,  of  yellow  fever. 

*  Dr.  David  Bennett,  of  Rowley,  was  the  husband  of  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Capt. 
Roger  Spencer  and  sister  of  the  wife  of  Sir  William  Phips.  His  son  Spencer,  born 
6  June,  1685,  was  adopted  by  Phips  and  became  Spencer  Phips,  Lieutenant-Gc  vernor 
of  Massachusetts  in  1733.  Dr.  Bennett  died  4  Feb.,  1719,  and  is  said  to  have  been  103 
years  old,  which,  however,  is  doubtful. 

*  Rank  in  the  militia,  a  lieutenant. 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

Soldiers  were  detailed  from  the  Massachusetts  Regiments  as 
stated  below : 

Regiments.  Men 

Major  Quincy 390 

"     Phillips 384 

"     Hutchinson 320 

"     Henchman 308 

"     Appleton 308 

"     Gedney 308 

"     Saltoji?tall 282 

Total    . 2,300 


SOME  VESSELS  OF  THE   FLEET  AND  THEIR   COMMANDERS. 


(The  Admiral,  Sit 
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Six  FritnJs,  44  guns,  200  men,  Capt.  Gregory  Sugars, 
William  Phips's  vessel.) 

yohn  and  Thomas,  26  guns,  80  men,  Capt.  Thomas  Carter. 
Admiral's  vessel.) 

The  Sivan,  Capt.  Thomas  Gilbert.     (Rear  Admiral's  vessel.) 

The  America  Merchant,  Capt.  Joseph  Eldridge. 

A  Frigate,  24  guns,  150  men. 

A  Brigantine,  8  guns,  70  men. 

Sloop,  Mary,  4  guns,  50  men,  Capt.  Nathaniel  Hatch 

The  Adventure  (brigantine),  Capt.  William  Bradlow. 

A  Brigantine  of  Capt.  Ebe.iezer  Prout. 

The  Mary  (a  brigantine  belonging  to  John  Bonner),  67  men,  Capt.  John 
Rainsford  of  Winsor. 

A  Sloop  of  Thomas  Brooks. 

The  Snow  America,  Capt.  Joseph  Parsons. 

Sloop,  Mary,  Capt.  Benjamin  Gallop. 

Ketch,  Fraternity. 

The  Ketch,  Hannah  and  Mary,  Capt.  Thomas  Parker. 

The  Ketch,  Mary  Ann,  Capt.  Gregory  Sugars,  jr. 

A  vessel,  Capt.  Andrew  Belcher. 

Blessed  William  of  New  York,  Capt.  William  Masson. 

Brigantine,  John  &"  Catherine  of  New  York,  Capt.  Francis  Goderis. 

Sloop,  Edward,  Capt  John  Swinton. 


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SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL   WARS. 


MASSACHUSETTS  TOWNS   IN 


Amesbury  . 

Andovir 

Barnstable 

Beverly 

Billerica     . 

Boston  .     . 

Boxford 

Bradford    . 
Braintree    . 
Bridgewater 
Cambridge 
Charlestown 
Chelmsford 
Concord 
Dartmouth 
Dedham     . 
Deerfield    . 
Dorchester 
Dunstable  . 
Duxbury     , 
Eastham 
Edgartown 
Falmouth   . 
Freetown    . 
Gloucester . 
Groton  .     . 
Hadley .     . 
Hatfield     . 
Haverhill   . 
Hingham    . 
Hull      .     . 
Ipswich 
Lancaster  . 
Lynn     .     . 
Maiden 
Manchester 
Marblehead 


1690   AND   DATE  OF 

1668  Marlborough 

'646  Marshfield 

>639  Medfield     . 

•668  Medford     . 

1655  Mendon     . 
1630  Middleborougl 
1685  Milton  .     . 
167s  Nantucket  . 
1640  Newbury    . 

1656  Newton 
'633  Northampton 

1629  Plymouth  . 
1655  Reading  . 
163s  Rehoboth  . 
1664  Rochester  . 

1636  Rowley 
1682  Roxbury  . 

1630  Salem  .  , 
1673  Salisbury  . 

1637  Sandwich   . 
1646   Scituate 
1 67 1    Sherborn    . 
1686   Springfield 
1688   Stow      .     . 
1639    Sudbury      . 
1655    Swanzey 
1 66 1    Taunton 
1670   Tisbury      . 
1645   Topsfield    . 
1635   Watertown 

1644  Wenham    . 
1634   Westfield    , 
1653   Weymouth 
1637   Woburn 
1649   Worcester  . 

1645  Wrentham. 
1649   Yarmouth  . 


INCORPORATION. 


1660 
1640 
165 1 
1631 
1667 
1669 
1662 
1687 

1635 

1688 

1654 

1620 

1644 

164s 

1686 

1639 

1630 

1629 

1640 

1639 

1636 

1674 

1636 

1683 

1639 

1667 

1639 

1671 

1650 

1630 

1643 
1669 

1635 
1642 
1684 
1673 
1639 


LIST  OF  WOUNDED. 
John  Shattuck  (Groton?)  wounded  in  the  arm. 
Thomas  Kelton,  wounded  in  the  foot. 


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1667 
1639 
1671 
[650 
1630 

1643 
[669 

1635 
[642 
1684 
1673 
1639 


Nicholas  Badcock,  sick.         s 

John  Stone,  Charlestown,  wounded. 

Samuel  Shatock  (Shattuck),  Watertown,  amputation  of  toes. 

Jno.  Scoterbey,  feet  frozen. 

Nathaniel  Hastings,  wounded. 

Jno.  Darbyshire,  Lancaster,  wounded. 

Jonas  Bond,  Watertown,  wounded. 

Daniel  Merrow,  Reading,  wounded. 

John  Prentice,  New  Cambridge,  wound^^d  in  both  arms. 

Daniel  Maccone,  Cambridge  Village. 

Joseph  Bush,  Cambridge  Village,  wounded  in  the  foot. 

Samuel  Andrews,  Weymouth,  wounded. 

John  Paige,  Groton,  wounded. 

Thomas  Extall,  Sudbury,  wounded. 

Obadiah  Ward,  Sudbury,  wounded. 

Jos.  Deane,  Concord,  feet  frozen  and  toes  amputated. 

Samuel  Fox,  Concord,  froze. 

Jacob  Adams.  Charlestown,  wounded. 

John  Morse,  Newbury,  wounded  (servant  to  Mr.  Noyes). 

James  Bridges,  Andover,  feet  froze. 

Richard  Bridges,  Ipswich  (servant  of  Nehemiah  Abbott),  feet  froze. 

Joseph  Bredeen,  wounded  in  the  foot. 

Daniel  Knight,  foot  froze,  amputation  5  joints. 

William  Dennis,  wounded  in  leg. 

John  Anderson,  Ipswich,  foot  wounded. 

Thomas  Hovey,  Ipswich,  foot  froze  on  return  expedition. 

John  Raymond,  wounded  in  both  legs. 

George  Trow,  wounded  by  a  ball  in  the  back. 

Sergt.  John  Lane,  feet  frozen. 

Benjamin  Plummer,  wound  in  the  shoulder. 

John  Fairfield,  feet  froze  on  return  of  expedition. 

Michael  Coombs,  wounded. 


CANADA    TOWNSHIPS. 

EXTRACTS   FROM   MASSACHUSETTS   ARCHIVES. 
[Mass.  House  jfournaJ,  yune  26,  ^7SS'} 

Robert  Hale ,  Esq  ;  from  the  Committee  appointed  last  night  on 
the  Grants  to  the  Canada  Officers  and  Soldiers,  &c.  Anno  1690, 
made  report,  which  was  read  accepted,  and  thereupon  the  fol- 
lowing Vote  passed,  viz.  IVAfreas  it  has  been  ordered  by  this 
Court  that  the  several  Committees  appointed  to  lay  out  the  Towns 
granted  in  answer  to  the  Petitions  of  the  Canada  Soldiers  in  their 


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Expedition  Anno  1690,  shall  take  Bonds  of  the  Grantees  for  the 
performance  of  the  Conditions  of  their  respective  Grants  ;  ana 
whereas  by  reason  of  the  Death  of  most  of  the  said  soldiers,  and 
minority  or  inability  of  many  of  their  Heirs  and  Descendants, 
the  intention  of  the  Court  in  rewarding  their  Service,  and  for 
settling  the  Lands  may  be  defeated  without  the  special  direction  of 
this  Court: 

Ordered,  That  the  said  Committees  and  all  others  that  may 
hereafter  be  appointed  by  this  Court  for  that  Service  on  Petitions 
for  Canada  Soldiers  in  that  Expedition,  shall  take  Bond  of  One, 
personally  the  Heir  Descendant  or  Representative  of  one  Soldier 
(preference  to  be  given  to  the  eldest  Male  if  such  there  be, 
otherwise  the  eldest  Female,  who  shall  appear  at  such  time  and 
place  as  the  Committee  shall  appoint  and  give  publick  notice 
of)  and  the  Grant  shall  belong  to  such  Obligor  his  heirs  and  as- 
signs for  ever  (provided  the  Conditions  of  the  Bond  be  performed) 
such  Obligor  paying  to  the  other  Descendants  or  Heirs  such 
proportionable  part  of  Ten  Pounds  as  such  Descendants  or  Heirs 
would  be  intitled  to  in  the  Land,  if  said  Land  descended  ac- 
cording to  the  Law  of  this  Province  for  the  Settlement  of  Intes- 
tate Estates,  and  also  what  charge  any  of  said  Descendants  may 
have  been  at  to  prove  or  bring  forward  said  Claims.  Sent  up  for 
Concurrence. 


[Mass.   Court  Records,  Jan.  16,  iTJS-d.} 

The  Deputy  Secretary  was  Sent  down  to  the  House  with  the 
following  Message  from  the  Board  viz'  — 

The  Board  tak*  into  Consideration,  as  well  the  Several 
Grants  made  by  the  House  Upon  petitions  for  Townships  of  the 
Canada  Officers  and  Soldiers  that  have  pass'd  the  whole  Court, 
as  those  Depending  at  the  Board,  &  finding  the  form  &  the 
direction  of  the  Descent  of  the  Estate  to  be  Essentially  differing ; 
which  the  Board  Apprehend  is  only  inconsistant,  but  also  Un- 
equal and  Unjust  as  to  the  Different  form  of  the  Grants,  pass'd 
thro'  the  whole  Court ;  the  Board  observe  that  on  the  four  first 
petitions  viz'  Gallop,  Newell,  Tileston,  &  Tiltons,  there  Seems  to 
be  an  Inconsistancyr  the  Grantees  therein  being  obliged  to  give 


(  3i  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA  IN    1 690. 

Bond  to  the  Com'**"  Appointed  to  lay  out  the  same  and  Yet  the 
said  Com'***  are  to  Transmit  into  the  Secretarys  office,  Lists  of 
the  Grantees  names  and  places  of  Abode  to  be  Regulated  by  an 
after  Com'**  which  Necessarily  Implys  giving  Bonds  before  Ad- 
mission In  the  order ;  on  two  Several  petitions  of  Shubal  Gore- 
ham  &  Samuel  King  the  Board  observed  no  Bonds  Ordered  to 
be  Given  or  lists  to  be  Transmitted  as  above ;  In  the  Order  on  the 
three  Several  petitions  of  Ebenezer  Hunt  of  William  Raymond 
&  Joseph  Silvester,  no  list  is  Ordered  to  be  taken  or  transmitted 
for  future  Regulation ;  The  Board  therefore  propose  to  the 
Hon"*  House  that  a  Com***  of  this  Court  be  Appointed  to  take 
a  List  of  the  names  and  places  of  Abode  of  said  Officers  and 
Soldiers  and  of  the  Descendants  of  such  as  are  deceased,  in 
Order  to  a  Regulation  by  a  Com***  of  this  Court,  and  so  Sixty 
of  them  may  be  Admitted  Grantees  and  Settlers  in  each  Town- 
ship of  Six  Miles  Square,  to  be  laid  out  pursuant  to  such  fore- 
mentioned  Regulation ;  And  as  to  the  Descent  of  the  Estate 
Granted  to  the  said  Officers  and  Soldiers,  the  Board  observe 
that  in  all  those  made  by  the  whole  Court,  they  all  Agree  Except 
that  made  to  Cap'  Silvester  &  his  men ;  which  last  mentioned  is 
not  to  the  Descendants  of  those  that  are  dec'ed  as  the  others 
are ;  Which  General  Method  of  Descent  the  Board  are  of  Opin- 
ion is  not  only  most  practicable,  but  also  most  Reasonable  and 
just,  and  will  be  Attended  with  much  less  Expence  to  the  prov- 
ince and  Greatly  conduce  to  the  Speedy  fulfillment  of  the  Con- 
ditions of  the  Grant ;  Therefore  move  that  the  said  Silvester 
Grant  may  be  Reduced  to  the  said  General  Rule  as  well  as  the 
Rest  of  the  Canada  Grants.  — 

In  the  House  of  Represent*  Read  &  Referred  to  the  next 
Sitting  of  the  Court  for  Consideration  — 


IMass.  Court  Records,  March  2j,  /7J5-6.] 

On  the  Message  from  the  Board  to  the  House  Referring  to 
the  late  Grants  of  Townships  as  Entred  the  16  Jan'ry  1735  — 

In  the  House  of  Represent'  Ordered  That  John  Chandler 
Robert  Hale  and  Daniel  Epes  Esq"  with  such  as  the  Hon**'* 
Board  shall  appoint  be  a  Committee  to  take  this  Message  under 


I 


I 


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(   34  ) 

SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL   WARS. 

Consideration  and  Report  what  may  be  proper  in  their  Opinion 
for  the  Court  to  do  for  the  More  Effectual  bringing  forward  the 
Settlement  of  the  Canada  Towns  so  Called  lately  granted  by  this 
Court 

In  Council  Read  and  Concurr'd  &  Edmund  Quincey  William 
Dudley  and  Samuel  Welles  Esq"  are  Joined  in  the  Affair  — 

[The  same  vote  is  entered  again,  March  26,  1736.] 


; 


lAfass.   Court  Records,  March  aj,  /7j6.] 

The  following  Report  of  the  Com'**  on  the  Affair  of  the 
Canada  Towns  was  Read  and  Accepted  by  both  Houses  viz* 

The  Committee  appointed  to  Consider  and  Report  their 
Opinion  what  may  be  proper  to  be  done  or  the  Message  from 
the  Board  of  Jan'ry  16  last  Relating  to  the  more  Effectual 
bringing  forward  the  Settlement  of  the  Canada  lowns  so  Called, 
are  of  Opinion,  That  the  Grants  Respectivly  of  the  four  Town- 
ships viz*  Gallop,  Newell,  Tileston,  &  Tiltons,  so  Called,  which 
were  made  to  the  officers  Soldiers  in  the  Canada  Expedition 
Anno  1690,  and  the  Descendants  of  such  as  are  Since  Deceased, 
are  well  Explained  by  the  Order  of  this  Court  of  the  26  of  June 
last ;  and  the  Several  Com'""  Appointed  to  lay  out  and  bring 
forward  the  Settlement  of  the  Said  Four  Townships  and  all 
other  Com'***  thereafter  to  be  Appointed  for  the  like  Service,  are 
by  the  same  Order  fully  Impowred  and  Directed,  as  to  the 
Admission  of  the  Grantees  &c,  and  shall  be  obliged  to  pro- 
ceed Accordingly ;  And  instead  of  their  Transmitting  into  the 
Secretarys  office  Lists  of  the  Respective  Grantees  &c  they  shall 
be  and  hereby  are  Obliged  to  take  the  best  Care  they  can  in 
Examining  &  Regulating  the  Claims  of  all  persons  that  shall 
appear  as  heirs  descendants  or  Represent",  and  shall  make  and 
keep  fair  lists  of  the  names  and  places  of  Residence  of  the 
Respective  Grantees  or  Settlers  of  the  said  Towns,  in  order  to 
prevent  Mistakes  in  Settling  and  Regulating  the  Claims  and 
admission  of  the  Grantees;  And  further  the  Com***  are  of 
Opinion,  that  the  Grantees  Admitted  or  that  may  be  Admitted 
into  the  two  Townships,  Granted  to  Shubal  Goreham  &  Samuel 


(  35  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

King  &  others  In  which  Grants,  thro'  Some  omission,  no  Bonds 
are  Ordered  to  be  Given,  there  be  the  Same  Bonds  Given  to  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Province  and  in  the  Same  manner  as  has  been 
ordered  in  and  by  the  other  Grants,  that  have  been  made  to  the 
Canada  Soldiers  That  in  as  much  as  the  Grants  made  to  the 
Canada  officers  &  Soldiers  are  to  be  laid  out  &  the  Settlers 
to  be  Admitted  at  the  Expence  of  the  province  which  Expence 
is  not  to  be  Reimbursed  by  the  Grantees  as  is  provided  in  the 
Grants  of  the  line  of  Towns  so  Called  the  said  Expence  and 
Charge  shall  be  Allowed  &  Advanced  out  of  the  publick 
Treasury  to  the  Amount  of  Fifty  pounds  for  each  Township  and 
no  more  and  if  it  exceeds  that  sum  it  shall  be  paid  by  the 
Grantees  before  they  draw  their  Lotts  — 

Consented  to  J.  Belcher 


BEVERLY   CANADA,    flALESTOWN,   WEARE,   N.H. 
(rrS   EQUIVALENT  RAYMOND,   ME.) 

\^Afass.  Hoitse  Journal,  April  ri,  /7SS-] 
A  Petition  of  Robert  Hale  of  Beverly,  Esq  \  in  behalf  of  the 
Canada  Soldiers  under  the  more  immediate  command  of  Capt. 
William  Rayment  of  Beverly,  and  also  of  such  other  Soldiers, 
Inhabitants  of  said  Town,  who  were  in  the  Canada  Expedition 
at  the  same  time,  viz.  Anno  1 690,  praying  that  in  consideration 
of  the  great  hardships  and  fatigues  they  then  underwent  in  and 
for  the  Service  of  their  Country,  they  may  obtain  a  Grant  of  six 
miles  square  of  Land  under  such  restrictions  and  limitations  as 
to  the  Court  may  seem  meet.  Read  and  Ordered,  That  John 
Chandler,  Samuel  Welles,  and  Daniel  Epes,  Esqrs ;  and  Mr. 
Webb,  are  desired  to  prepare  a  proper  Vote  for  bringing  forward 
the  Settlement  of  the  premises,  and  make  report  thereon. 

[iJ/aw.  Court  Records,  June  ig,  and  House  Journal,  June  10,  /7j*/-] 

A  Petition  of  Robert  Hale,  Esq'  in  behalf  of  the  officers  & 
Soldiers  that  were  in  the  Expedition  Against  Canada  in  the  Year 
1690  Under  the  Command  of  Cap'  William  Raymond,  most  of 
whom  belonged  to  the  Town  of  Beverly,  which  Town  has  had 


i»i<i*'>Hlii>fa.riM.i  m  t 


I 


II 


( 36 ) 

SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

no  Grant  of  land  from  the  Province  excepting,  some  few  Narrt- 
gansett  Soldiers,  and  the  heirs  of  the  Pet"  Grandfather,  that  the 
said  Soldiers  in  the  Canada  Expedition  endured  Great  hardship ; 
And  therefore  praying  for  a  Grant  of  land  of  Six  miles  Square 
for  a  Township  for  the  said  Soldiers  &  their  Represent'  — 

In  the  House  of  Represent*  Read  &  in  Answer  to  this  peti- 
tion — 

Voted  "^hdi  a  tract  of  the  Unappropriated  Lands  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  the  Contents  of  Six  Miles  Square  be  &  hereby  is  Grantf  1 
to  the  pet"  their  heirs  and  assigns  Respectivly  for  a  Township, 
to  lye  in  some  Suitable  place  so  as  not  to  Spoil  or  incommode 
the  Settlement  of  another  Town,  and  that  the  Grantees  be  & 
hereby  are  obliged  to  bring  forward  the  Settlement  of  the  said 
Township  in  as  Regular  and  Defensible  a  manner  as  the  Situa- 
tion &  Circumstances  of  the  place  will  Admit  of,  in  the  following 
manner,  viz'  that  each  Grantee  or  his  heirs  or  assignes  build  an 
house  on  his  Respective  Lot  or  share  of  Eighteen  feet  Square 
and  Seven  feet  Stud  at  the  Least,  and  plow  and  bring  to  English 
Grass  &  fit  for   mowing.   Six   Acres  of  Land ;  and   that  they 
Settle  a  Learned  Orthodox  Minister  and  Build   a  Convenient 
Meeting  house  for  the  Publick  Worship  of  God,  That  one  Sixty 
third  part  of  the  Township  be  and  hereby  is  Granted  to  the  first 
Settled  Minister,  the  like  quantity  for  the  use  of  the  Ministry, 
and  the  like  quantity  also  for  the  use  of  the  School ;  in  all  the 
divisions  of  the  said  Township  j  That  the  said  Grantees  be  and 
hereby  are  obliged  to  comply  with  all  the  conditions  within  five 
Years ;  and  that  Robert  Hale  and  John  Wainwright  Esq"  with 
such  as  shall  be  Appointed  by  the  Hon"*  Board,  be  a  Com***  to 
lay  out  the  said  Township,  at  the  Charge  of  the  Province ;  and 
the   committee  is  directed  to   take  Bond  of  each  Grantee   of 
Twenty  pounds  for  the  fulfillment  of  the  conditions  aforesaid, 
the  bonds  to  be  made  to  the  Province  Treasurer  and  in  Case  any 
of  the  G  rantees  fail  of  the  performance  of  his  Grant,  such  person 
shall  forfeit  all  Right  Tide  or  pretence  thereto  to  the  Province 
to  be  disposed  of  as  this  Court  shall  think  proper ;  The  Com*"  to 
Return  a  Plat  of  the  said  Township  to  this  Court  within  twelve 
months  for  Confirmation  — 


(  37  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN   1690. 

In  Council  Read  &  Concurr'd  and  Ebenezer  Burrill  Esq'  is 
Joined  w"*  the  Com'**  of  the  House  for  the  above  Affairs.  — 


[Afass.  Houit  Journal,  June  /g,  f7SJ'} 

John  Jeffries,  Esqr;  brought  down  the  Petition  of  Robert 
Hale,  Esq ;  in  behalf  of  sundry  Canada  Soldiers  and  Officers  of 
Beverly,  Anno  1690,  with  the  Vote  of  the  House  of  the  10"'. 
currant  thereon,  Pass'd  in  Council  viz.  In  Council  June  19"*. 
1735.  Read  and  concur'd  with  the  Amendment,  vis.  dele  the 
words  —  with  the  first  Division  or  Home-Lots  —  and  insert  — 
at  the  Charge  of  the  Province,  and  the  Committee  is  directed  to 
take  Bond  of  each  Grantee  of  Twenty  Pounds  for  the  fulfilment 
of  the  Conditions  aforesaid,  the  Bonds  to  be  made  to  the  Treasurer 
of  the  Province  and  in  case  any  of  the  Grantees  shall  fail  of  the 
performance  of  his  Grant,  such  Person  shall  forfeit  all  his  Right 
Title  and  Pretence  thereto  to  the  Province,  to  be  disposed  of  as 
this  Court  shall  think  proper  :  and  that  Ebenezer  Burrell,  Esg: 
be  joined  with  the  Committee  of  the  House  on  the  affair. 

Sent  down  for  concurrence. 

Read  and  concur'd. 


\Maa.  Maps  and  Plans,   Vol.  g,  p.  /^.] 

This  plan  is  the  Draught  of  a  track  of  Land  laid  out  Laiying 
on  the  Wast  sid  of  Mereymak  River  adjoining  the  South  sid  to  a 
Township  Latly  Surveyed  by  Jerahmeel  Cummings  and  laid  out 
to  satesfy  a  grant  made  by  the  General  Courtt  to  Cap'  William 
Rayment  and  others  at  there  sessions  in  May  1735,  and  Contains 
24682  acres  being  of  Contants  of  six  miles  square  with  the 
adition  of  164  a  acars  allowed  for  Swag  of  Chaine  and  Bad 
Land. 

Sorveyed  by  me  Wiluam  Gregg —  Sorveyor 

Londondery  febrwary  17*''  1735. 


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(  38  ) 

SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


I 


BEVERLY    CANADA. 

Bevely,  January  9th,  1734-5. 
These  arc  to  desire  all  the  Officers  &  Soldiers  that  were 
under  Capt.  William  Raymont  in  the  year  1690,  or  any  other  of 
our  Neighbors  that  were  on  that  Expedition  to  Canada,  against 
the  French  &  Indian  Enemy,  are  desired  to  assemble  & 
meet  together  at  the  House  of  Mr.  William  Trow  of  Bevely  on 
thirsday  the  23d  Day  of  this  instant,  at  nine  of  the  Clock  in  the 
forenoon ;  then  and  there  to  choose  a  Moderator  &  a  Clerk  &  to 
do  any  other  thing  or  things  that  shall  be  thought  needful  to  be 
done  on  said  day. 

Joseph  Heriuck, 
Nathaniel  Raymond, 
Nathanifx  Porther. 

Bevely,  January  23d,  1734-5. 

At  a  Meeting  of  the  Canada  Soldiers  that  were  under  the 
Command  of  Capt.  William  Raymont  &  others  of  their  Neigh- 
bours that  were  in  that  Expedition  to  Canada,  1 69^ 

Mr.  Joseph  Herrick  was  chosen  Moderator. 

Nathaniel  Porter  was  chosen  Clerk  &  Treasurer  01  s"  Society. 
Robert  Hale,  Esq.,  was  chosen  to  put  in  a  Petition  to  the  Great 
&  General  Court  in  Behalf  of  s*  Society. 

Robert  Hale,  Esq.,  M'.  Joseph  Herrick  &  M'.  Nath'l  Porter, 
are  chosen  a  Committee  to  draw  up  a  new  List  &  Strike  out 
those  who  don't  pay  their  part  of  the  Expenses  &  put  in  other 
in  their  Room. 

Voted,  that  the  Committee  last  chosen  are  impowerd  to  call 
meetings  from  Time  to  time  as  often  as  there  shall  be  Occasion. 

Voted,  that  the  P.  Committee  are  also  impowerd  to  draw 
Money  out  of  the  Treasury  as  often  as  there  shall  be  Occasion, 
and  then  the  Meeting  was  disolved. 

Note.  All  such  as  entered  their  Names  at  this  Meeting  paid 
each  his  5/'  to  the  Treasurer  to  carry  on  the  cost  of  Petitioning 
&  after  this  Meeting,  the  afores^  Com'**  called  another  &  at  that 
compleated  their  List  to  the  number  of  Sixty,  all  which  paid  as 
aforesd  5/'  each,  which  amounted  to  ;^i5. 


(   39   ) 

THE    EXPEDITION  TO   TANADA    [N    1690. 

Hereafter  follows  the  List  of  such  of  the  Canada  Soldiers  as 
belong  to  the  afors-  Society,  together  with  the  Names  of  such  as 
have  appeared  &  paid  the  charge  of  Petitioning,  viz'. 

List  of  Soldiers  and  their  Representatives :  — 

For  Cap'.  Wilm.  Rayment, 
"    Ens.  Samuel  Balch, 
"    Serj.  Richard  Woodberry, 
"    Serj.  Haiadiah  Smith, 
••    Corp.  Roger  Hill, 
"    Corp.  Samuel  Barton, 
"    Corp.  Joseph  Woodberry, 
*'    Corp.  John  Grover. 
"    Clerk  Joshua  Wallis, 
"  John  Rayment, 

"  Nath'l  Rayment, 

"  Tobias  Trow, 

"  George  Trow, 

"  Jonathan  Herrick, 

William  Wood, 
"  Anthony  Wood, 

"  William  Trask, 

William  Carr, 
"  John  Craige, 

"  Lawrence  -i 

"  James         I  Dennis, 

William     ) 
John  Bill, 
"  Robert  Colborn, 

"  George  Harris, 

•*  Thomas  Patch, 

"  William  Curtis, 

"  Joseph  Herrick, 

"  Nathaniel  Porter,' 

"  Isaac  Goodale, 

"  Gabriel  Whood, 

"  Moses  Gage, 

Joseph  Morgan, 
'  John  Liah,         1 

Joseph  Fenton,  i  "       Robert  Hale 

John  Dodge,  ««        John  Dodge 

Benjamin  Daland,  ••        George  Dal  and 

Thomas  Lee,  «•        John  Lee  Jun. 

John  Wheeler,  ''        Thomas  Hill 

George  Wyatt,  "        George  Wyatt 


appeared  Josiah  Batchelder 
Samuel  Balch 
RichO.  Woodberry 
'*        Sttmuel  Smith 
Lebulon  Hill 
"        Samuel  Barton 
"        Joseph  Woodberry 
Robert  Hale 
Caleb  Wallis 
Nath'l  Rayment 
himself 
"        Benjamin  Trow 
"        himself 

•'        Capt.  Henry  Herrick 
"        Anthony  Wood 
"        Deacon  Israel  Wood 
"        Samuel  Trask 
"        Benjamin  Trask 
"        Benjamin  Trow 

"        Thomas  Pitman 

Edward  Trask 
Robert  Baker 
*'        Samuel  Harris 


/  being  still   living  appeared   by 
I  themselves. 


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(  40 

) 

SOCIETY 

OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

fm 

James  Meads, 

appeared  Henry  Hale 

ft 

Edmund  Sevcry, 

<i 

Thomas  Porter 

<i 

William  Somerby, 

<< 

Joseph  Herrick  Jun. 

« 

Eleazer  Putnam, 

<( 

Sam«i  Putnam 

« 

Charles  Stearns, 

(< 

Samuel  Stearns 

« 

John  Poole, 

i( 

Jonath"  Poole 

<( 

Adam  Page, 

<( 

Moses  Gage 

(1 

Samuel  Morgan. 

K 

John  Morgan 

<( 

Thomas  Blashfield, 

<< 

Henry  Blashford 

It 

David  Ellin  wood, 

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Ebenezer  EUinwood 

<i 

Jonathan  Stone, 

t( 

Samuel  Stone 

<4 

Humphrey  French, 

(( 

Nathaniel  Gold 

« 

John  Mitchel, 

<< 

Robert  Warner 

(( 

Samuel  Hibberd, 

<( 

Jonathan  Hibberd 

« 

George  Gray, 

(( 

George  Gray 

<( 

John  Morgan, 

>( 

John  Morgan 

(< 

Lieut.  Exercise  Conant, 

i(   ' 

Nathaniel  Porter 

(i 

Robert  Warren, 

t< 

himself 

(4 

'    Joseph  Trumble, 

i< 

William  Trow 

4( 

John  Allen, 

<< 

H?nry  Hale 

Bevely,  April  7,  1735. 

The  aforegoing  is  a  Copy  of  the  List  taken  out  of  clerk  Porter's 
Book  &  stands  there  signed  by  Robert  Hale. 

Nath"-  Porter,  "j  p^^,. 
Joseph  Herrick,  ) 

Raymond,  Me.,  granted  in  1767  as  an  equivalent  grant  and 
named  after  Capt.  William  Raymond. 


DORCHESTER   CANADA. 

A  list  of  the  names  of  the  soldiers  under  the  command  of 
Capt.  John  Withington,  Oct.  3,  1C90  : 


Capt.  Joh.  Withington, 
Left.  George  Minott, 
Insine  Samuel  Sumner, 


Sargt.  Ammiel  Weeks,     Corp.  John  Pope, 
Sargt.  Richard  Butt,         Corp.  Joseph  Curtis, 
Sargt.  S  imuel  Sumner,     Corp.  George  Holmes, 
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Ebenezer  Sumner,' 
Henry  Lyon,' 
Eliab  Lyon,' 
Unight  Modsley, 
William  Cheney, 
Peter  Calley, 
Ebenezer  Poope, 
William  Sumner,' 
Eleazer  Walles, 
William  Cooke, 
Joseph  Long, 
Thomas  Weeks, 
Thomas  Andrews, 
William  Sumner, 
Samuel  Sandras,^ 
Edward  Waitte, 
Benieman  Hewens, 
James  Swift,' 
Hopstill  Sandras,^ 
Solomon  Clarke, 
John  Lord, 
Consider  Atherton, 
Jezeniah  Sumner,'  * 


Adam  Barr, 
James  Robinson, 
Cornelius  Tileston , 
Richard  Euins, 
Samuel  Hicks, 
John  Tolman, 
John  Jones, 
Ebenezer  Crane.i 
Samuel  Chandler, 
William  Fowst, 
William  Belshar, 
David  Stevenson, 
Henry  Jackson, 
Thomas  Bird, 
Augusten  Clements, 
William  Swift,' 
Moses  Chaplain, 
Joshua  Shoot, 
John  Anderson, 
John  Leeds, 
Isaac  Caps, 
John  Crowhore,' 


These  on  bord  Capt.  B — y, 

Corp.  Daniell  Hensha,' 
William  Blake.' 
John  Gulliver,' 
William  George, 
Joseph  Atherton, 
Samuel  Triscott,' 
Thomas  Kelton, 
John  Morrill, 
James  Morey, 
Edward  Clapp,' 
Jehosephat  Crabtree, 
John  Briant, 
Robert  Hersay, 
Charles  Readman,' 
William  Baker, 
Matthew  Mapley, 
John  Jones, 
Elias  Moonke. 


This  list  was  found  among  the  papers  left  by  Ebenezer  Clap, 
son  of  Nathaniel,  who  was  one  of  the  active  citizens  of  the  town 
about  the  time  the  company  was  raised.  It  is  presumed  that 
the  fate  of  many  of  those  who  never  returned  was  for  a  long 
time  doubtful ;  as,  twenty  years  after  the  expedition  left  Dor- 
chester, Ezra  Clap,  of  Milton,  made  provision  in  his  will  for  his 
son  Edward  if  he  ever  returned.  June  19,  1 735,  the  General 
Court  of  Massachusetts  granted  to  the  survivors  of  that  expe- 
dition, and  to  the  heirs  of  those  who  were  lost,  a  township  of 
land  in  the  northern  part  of  Worcester  County,  which  was  called 
Dorchester  Canada.  This  was  incorporated  into  a  town  in 
1765,  and  called  Ashbumham.  The  rights  to  these  lands  were 
sold  from  time  to  time.  Hezekia  Barbour,  of  Dorchester,  pur- 
chased a  number  of  them ;  also  Thomas  Tilestone. 

The  following  list  of  names  is  given  in  the  Mass.  Archives,  Vol. 
XXXVI.,  p.  153,  and  credited  to  Dorchester  in  Capt.  John  Whit- 
tington's  Company : 


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*  Milton  men. 


*  Henthaw. 


*  Sanders. 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


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Amiel  Weekes, 
Thomas  Bird, 
Joseph  Curtis, 
Peter  Calley,  jun., 
Isaac  Cops  (Indian), 
Moses  Chaplin, 
William  Cheney, 
Samuel  Hicks, 
Henry  Lyon, 
Eliab  Lyon, 


Joseph  Long, 
Unite  Moseley, 
Ebenezer  Pope, 
William  Robeson  (Indian), 
Ebenezer  Sumner, 
William  Sumner, 
William  Sumner, 
Joseph  Trescott, 
Caesar  Willys. 


Autographs  of  some  of  the  following  appear : 


Thomas  Bird, 
Moses  Chaplin, 
William  Cheney, 
Solomon  Clarke, 
William  Cocke, 
Isaac  Cups, 
Joseph  Curtis, 
Augustine  Clements, 
Henry  Jackson, 
Peter  Kelly, 
Henry  Lyon, 
Eliab  Lyon, 


Joseph  Long, 
Unite  Moseley, 
John  Pope, 
Ebenezer  Pope, 
Ebenezer  Sumner, 
William  Sumner, 
Samuel  Sumner, 
Jeremiah  Sumner, 
Joshua  Shute, 
William  Sumner, 
Joseph  Trescott. 
Vol.  XXXVI. 


p.  154. 


The  following  are  credited  to  Dedham  : 


George  Blackman, 
Benjamin  Fairbanks, 
Benjamin  Freeman, 
Hezekiah  Gay, 
James  Grant, 
Samuel  Metcalf, 
Daniel  Mackerwethy, 


Jacob  Noues  (Newell  ?) , 
Daniel  Pond,  jun., 
Joseph  Sever, (?) 
Samuel  Stearns, 
James  Thorp, 
John  Thorp, 
Jonathan  Whiting. 
Vol.  XXXVI 


P-  IS3- 


The  following  are  credited  to  Milton 


Daniel  Henshaw,  junr.. 
Ens.  Samuel  Sumner, 


Zachariah  (Jazaniah?)  Sum- 
ner. 

Vol.  XXXVI. ,  p.  153. 


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Samuel  and  William  Sumner  were  lost  on  the  expedition. 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 


MEDFIELD. 

Medfield  was  ord'red  to  furnish  its  quota  of  soldiers.  For 
some  reason  the  court  abated  to  Medfield  ten  soldiers  ;  the  rest 
were  ordered  to  appear  at  Braintree,  August  4,  at  twelve  o'clock. 
One  man  at  least,  John  Smith,  Jr.,  is  known  to  have  gone  from 
this  town,  and  perished  in  that  undertaking. 

In  Vol.  XXXVL,  p.  152,  the  following  are  given  as  from  Med- 
field ;   if  so,  there  were  some  from  neighboring  towns. 


James  Alin, 
Benjamin  Bugby, 
Robert  Cosh, 
Samuel  Danel, 
Robert  Danel, 
Jonathan  Fisher, 


James  Frizel, 
John  George, 
Israel  Harsse, 
Jeremiah  Parker, 
Samuel  Perry, 
William  Willis. 


BRAINTREE   RECORDS. 


"  Upon  the  9th  day  of  August  ther  went  out  a  fleet  Souldiers 
to  Canadee  in  the  year  1690,  and  the  small  pox  was  abord  and 
they  died,  sixe  of  it ;  four  thrown  overbord  at  Cap  an,  Corporall 
John  Parmtr,^  Isaak  Thayr,  Ephraim  Copeland  and  Ebenezer 
Owin,  Thes  and  Samuel  Bas,  and  John  Cheny  was  thrown  over- 
bord at  Nantaskett. 

"  Serjant  Thomas  Faxon  died  of  the  small  pox  and  was  buried 
at  Waymoth. 

"  John  Harber,  son  of  the  widow  harber  who  received  a  wound 
by  a  bulet  in  an  ingagement  at  the  estward  lay  lame  several 
weeks  of  his  wound  afterwards  took  the  smal  pox  and  died  the 
4th  of  February  1690,  at  Brantree. 

"  Joseph  Peniman  son  of  Joseph  Paniman  sickened  and  died 
of  a  fever  soon  after  he  came  from  Canadee  he  being  one  of  the 
souldiers:  upon  22  of  January  i6^f." 

Corporal  William  Forrest,  of  Capt.  John  Withington's  Company, 
was  from  Braintree. 


>  Parmenter. 


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SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


DORCHESTER   CANADA,   ASHBURNHAM,   MASS. 

The  sixty  rights  in  the  township  were  assigned  as  follows  : 

1  —  Thomas  Wilder  of  Lancaster  in  Right  of  His  wife   Susannah  eldest 

Daughter  to  John  Pope. 

2  —  John  Swift  Jun'  of  Framingham  in  the  Right  of  His  Father  M'  John 

Swift  eldest  Brother  to  William  Swift. 

3  —  Joseph  Warren  of  Roxbury  in  the  Right  of  Elias  Monk  of  Stoughton. 

4  —  Benjamin  Cheney  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  his  Brother  William 

Cheney. 

5  —  Joseph  Triscott  of  Dorchester  in  the   Right  of  His  Father  Jos.^ph 

Triscott. 

6  —  Humphrey    Atherton  of  Stoughton    in  the  Right  of    His  Father 

Consider  Atherton. 

7  —  Jonathan  Chandler  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Brother  Samuel 

Chandler. 

8  —  Matathias  Evens  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Brother  Richard 

Evens  at  the  Desire  of  his  Eldest  Brother  Thomas  Evens. 

9  —  john  Toalman  Jun'  in  the  Right  of  His  Father  John  Toalman  of  Dor- 

chester and  at  His  Desire. 

10  —  Seth  Sumner  of  Milton  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle  Josianiah  Sumner 

at  the  Desire  of  His  uncle  William  Sumner. 

11  —  John  Robinson  Jun'  of    Dorchester  in  Behalf  of  his  Father  John 

Robinson  eldest  Brotbi>r  to  James  Robinson. 

12  —  Ebenezer  Crane  of  Braintree  in  the  Right  of  Ebenezer  Crane. 

13  —  William  Blake  of  Milton  in  the  Right  of  James  Morey  in  Behalf 

of  his    Mother    Martha    Blake    eldest  Daughter  to    said   James 
Morey. 

14  —  John  Andrews  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Brother  Thomas 

Andrews. 
.15  —  Joseph  Leads  of  Dorchester  in  Behalf  of  His  Wife  Mary  eldest  Sister 
to  Joseph  Weeks. 

16  —  Thomas  Lyon  Jun'  of  Dorchester  in  Behalf  of  His  Father  Thomas 

Lyon  Eldest  Brother  to  Henry  Lyon. 

17  —  Richard  Withington  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Father  Capt 

John  Withington. 
iS  —  Joseph  Weeks  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Brother  Thomas 
Weeks. 

19  —  M'  William  Cooper  of  Boston  in  the  Right  of  Benjamin  Hewins,  at 

the  Desire  of    Joseph  Hewins  eldest  Brother  of    said  Benjamin 
Hewins. 

20  —  Obadiah  Swift  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Brother  James  Swift. 

21  —  Hezekiah  Barber  of  Dorchester   in  the  Right  of  Yonnite  Modsley  at 

the  Desire  of  His  Brother  Thomas  Modsley. 


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22  —  Ralph  Pope  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Brother   Ebeneier 

Pope. 

23  —  Samuel  Butt  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle  Richard  Hut. 

24  —  David  Joans  of  Wrentham  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle  John  Joans. 

25  —  Samuel   Sumner   of  Taunton  in  the  Right   of  His    Father   Samuel 

S>imner. 

26  —  Josiah  Baker  of  Boston  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle  William  Baker. 

27  —  Mr  William  Cooper  of    Boston  in  the  Right  of  His   Uncle   George 

Menott. 

28  —  Edward  Kelton  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  F's  Father  Thomas 

Kelton. 

29  —  Robert  Redman  of  Stoughton  in  the   Right  of  His  Father  Charles 

Redman. 

30  —  Samuel  Kneeland  of  Boston  in  the  Right   of  Ammiel  Weeks  at  the 

Desire  of  His  son  George  Weeks. 

31  —  Neamiah  Clap  of  Milton  in  the   Right  of  His  Brother  Edward  Clap. 

32  —  Timothy  Tilestone  of  Dorchester  in  the   Right  of  His  Brother  Corne- 

lius Tilestone. 

33  —  Samuel   Hinshua  of  Milten   in    the    Right   of  Daniel  Hinshua   His 

Uncles  son. 

34  —  Edward   Sumner   of    Roxbury   in   the    Right   of   His  Uncle  Samuel 

Sumner. 

35  —  Benjamin  Sumner  of  Milten  in  the  Right  of    His   Brother    William 

Sumner. 

36  —  Robert  Cook  of  Needham  in  the  Right  of  His  Brother  William  Cook. 

37  —  Batholame  Gold  of   Boston  in  the  Right   of   His   Uncle    Ebenezer 

Sumner. 

38  —  John  Charhore  of  Milten  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle  John  Charhore. 

39  —  Benjamin  Bird  Jun'  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle  Thomas 

Bird. 

40  —  Samuel  Blake  of  Taunton  in  the  Right  of  His  uncle  William  Blake. 

41  —  Thomas  Tilestone  Esqr  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  Capt.   John 

Galliver  at  the  desire  of  Jonathan  Galliver  who  was  admitted  a 
Settler. 

42  —  Timothy  Mossman  of   Sudbury  in  the  Right  of   His  wive's  Brother 

Samuel  Hix. 

43  —  Joshua  George  of  Attleborough  in  the  Right  of  His  Brother  William 

George. 

44  —  James  Atherton  of   Harvard  in  the  Right  of    His   Uncle   Joseph 

Atherton. 

45  —  William  Sumner  of  Milton  in  the  Right  of  William  Sumner  His  Uncle 

Increase  Sumners  Son. 
4.6  —  Elizabeth  Trescott  of  Milton  in  the  Right  of  Her  Brother  Samuel 

Trescott. 
47  —  Joseph  Chaplin  of  Roxbury  in  the  Right  of   His  Brother  Moses 

Chaplin. 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS, 

48  —  Hezekiah  Barber  of   Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  Eliab  Lyen  at  the 

Deseir  of  Zachariah  Lyon  Son  of  Nathaniel  Lyon  Eldest  Brother  to 
said  Eliab  Lyon. 

49  —  Waitestill  Lyon  ot   Dorchester  in  the  Right  of    Her  Uncle  Edward 

Wiat. 

50  —  Benjamin  Mansfield  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Neffue  Peter 

Kelley. 

51  —  Samuel  Burch  of  Dorchester  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle jEliazer  Wales. 

52  —  Isaac  How  of  Doichester  in  the  Right  of  His  Cussen  Joseph  Curtice. 

53  —  Thomas   Tilestone  Esq'  of    Dorchester   in   the   Right  of    Hopestill 

Sanders  in  Behalf  of  John  Sanders. 

54  —  William  Royal  of  Stoughton  in  the  Right  of  Samuel  Sanders  >n  Behalf 

of  John  Sanders. 

55  —  John  Sheperd  of  Stoughton  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle  John  Sheperd 

—  Maj'  Wade. 

56  —  Philip  Gooding  of  Stoughton  who  sarved  under  Maj'  Wade. 

'  57  —  Joseph  Wilder  Esq'  of  Lancaster  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle  Samuel 

Wheeler  who  sarved  in  the  Expedition  to  Canada  under  Maj' 

Nathaniel  Wade. 
58  —  Nathan   Heywood  of   Lunenburg  in  the  Right  of  John  Willis  His 

Wives  Father  who  sarved  under  Capt  Savage. 
'  59  —  Oliver  Wilder  of  Lancaster  in  the  Right  of  Jonathan  Fairbank  who 

sarved  under  Capt  Champney. 
'  60  —  Joseph  Wheelock  of  Lancaster  in  the  Right  of  His  Uncle  Timothy 

Wheelock  who  sarved  under  Cap'  Anderson. 


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SALEM     CANADA. 
lAntia/s  of  SaUm.'\ 

1690,  June  10.  Capt.  Brown's  troop  are  to  draft  14  of  their 
number 

June  20  John  Curwin  and  July  4  Daniel  King  are  chosen 
captains  for  the  Canada  expedition. 

July  29.  There  are  308  soldiers  and  seamen  from  Gedney's 
Regt.  at  Salem  ready  to  embark  for  Canada. 

Oct  13  To  the  family  of  each  man  in  public  service  a  /  are 
to  be  paid  every  week. 

Nov  25  Sick  and  wounded  lately  brought  hither,  Many  of 
them  strangers.  These  were  part  of  ihe  forces  which  had  made 
an  unsuccessful  attack  on  Canada. 

>  Lancaster  men. 


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THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN   169O. 

SALEM    CANADA,    LYNDEBORO,    N.H. 
[Afass.  Court  Records,  Junt  i<f,  17 JS-^ 

A  Petition  of  Samuel  King  &  others,  who  were  in  the  Expedi- 
tion to  Canada  in  the  Year  1690  and  the  Descendants  of  such 
of  them  as  are  dead,  praying  for  a  Grant  of  Land  for  a  Town- 
ship in  Consideratio:i  of  their  or  their  Ancestors  Sufferings  in 
the  said  Expedition  — 

In  the  House  of  Represent'  Read  &  Fofed  that  the  prayer  of 
the  petition  be  Granteu  snA  that  M'.  Samuel  Chandler  &  M'. 
John  Hobson,  together  with  such  as  shall  be  Joined  by  the 
Hon"*  Board,  be  a  Com'*"  at  the  Charge  of  the  Government  to 
lay  out  a  Township  of  the  Contents  of  Six  Miles  Square  and 
West  of  the  Narragansett  Town  Called  Number  three  and  that 
they  Return  a  Plat  thereof  to  this  Court  within  twelve  Months 
for  Confirmation ;  and  for  the  more  Effectual  bringing  forward 
the  Settlement  of  the  said  New  town,  Ordered  that  the  said 
Town  be  laid  out  into  Sixty  three  Equal  Shares,  One  of  which 
to  be  for  the  first  Settled  Minister,  One  for  the  Ministry,  and 
one  for  the  School,  and  that  on  each  of  the  other  Sixty  Shares 
the  Petitioners  do  within  three  Year^  from  the  Confirmation  of 
the  Plan  have  Settled  One  Good  family  who  shall  have  a  house 
built  on  his  Home  lott  of  Eighteen  feet  Square  and  Seven  feet 
Stud  at  the  least,  and  finished,  that  each  Right  or  Grant  have  Six 
Acres  of  Land  brought  to  and  plowed  or  brought  to  English 
Grass  and  fitted  for  mowing ;  That  they  Settle  a  learned  ortho- 
dox Minister  and  build  &  finish  a  Convenient  meeting  house  for 
the  publick  worship  of  God ;  provided  that  in  Case  any  of  the 
Lotts  or  Rights  are  not  duly  Settled  in  all  Regards  as  aforesaid, 
then  such  Lott  with  the  Rights  thereof  to  Revert  to  and  be  at 
the  Disposition  of  the  Province 

In  Council  Read  &  Concurr'd  and  Samuel  Welles  Esq^  is 
Joined  in  the  Affair 

Layd  out  In  May  1736  a  Township  of  the  Contents  of  Six 
Miles  Square  or  23040  acres  and  loi 8  acres  allowed  for  water  &c 
which  was  Lay'd  out  To  Sam"  King  and  others  Canada  Soldiers 
In  the  year  1690  Lying  on  the  west  of  Salem  Naragansett  Town 


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SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


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No  3  on  the  North  Side  of  the  Souheeg  River  Bounded  as 
folows  Begining  at  a  Spruse  Tree  and  Runs  North  By  the 
Needle  2 191  Perch  on  Province  Land  To  a  hemlock  Tree 
marked  then  Runs  East  1558  Pearch  on  Province  Land  To  a 
Township  adjoining  To  and  Lying  North  of  Salem  Naragansett 
Town  No  3  then  Runs  South  on  Said  Township  640  perch  to 
Township,  granted  to  John  Simpson  &  Others  Then  Runs  East 
on  s**  Town  ship  402  perch  To  a  stake  &  Stones  then  Runs 
South  1467  Perch  on  Said  Salem  Narragansett  Town  then  Runs 
west  480  Perch  on  Duxbury  School  Farm  to  a  stake  and  heap 
of  Stones  then  Runs  South  13  Perch  on  Said  Farm  To  a  popler 
Tree  Marked  then  Runs  west  1460  perch  To  the  Spruse  Tree 
First  Named  on  Provence  Land  all  which  May  appear  By  the 
plan  above  Layd  Down  by  a  Scale  of  216  Pearch  To  an  Inch 
the  Swagg  of  Chain  In  this  Town  ship  in  3  perch  In  one  Hun- 
dred :  by  order  of  the  Honourable  Sam"  Welles  Esq'  and  Mr 
Sam"  Chandler 

^  Stephen  Hosmer  Junr  Surveyor 


\^Mass.  Court  Records,  and  House  Journal,  Dec.  17,  //jd.] 

In  the  House  of  Represent'  Ordered  that  Daniel  Epes  Esq' : 
be  and  hereby  is  Authorized  &  Impowred  to  assemble  &  Con- 
vene as  soon  as  may  be  in  Some  Convenient  place  in  the  Town 
of  Salem  the  proprietors  or  Grantees  of  the  Townshio  granted 
by  this  Court  in  June  1735,  "*  Answer  to  the  petition  of  Samuel 
King  &  others,  who  were  in  the  Canada  Expedition  Anno  1690, 
to  Chuse  A  Moderator  &  proprietors  Clerk,  &  to  pass  such 
Votes  &  Orders  &c  as  may  be  Agreeable  to  the  bringing  for- 
ward the  Settlement  of  the  Township,  According  to  the  Condi- 
tions of  the  Grant,  as  well  as  the  Interest  of  the  propriety ;  and 
to  Agree  upon  a  method  how  to  Call  future  proprietors  Meet- 
ings, as  well  as  to  Admit  the  Grantees  to  a  Draught  of  their 
Home  lots  — 

In  Council  Read  &  Concurr'd 

Consented  to  J  Belcher 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    t690. 

These  are  to  notify  the  proprietors  of  Salem  Canada  Town- 
ship That  they  assemble  together  at  Mrs.  Fratts  house  in  Salem 
on  the  loth  day  of  Dec'  next  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  to 
pass  upon  the  accounts  of  Raising  the  Meetinghouse  and  other 
accounts  that  may  then  be  laid  before  them. 

Also  to  appoint  a  Committee  to  finish  the  Meetinghouse  Also 
to  consider  and  act  what  may  be  proper  in  regard  to  having  the 
word  of  God  preached  to  the  Inhabitants  living  on  the  to^vn- 
ship  —  Also  to  see  if  the  proprietors  will  do  anything  further  in 
clearing  roads,  and  whereas  Mr  John  ('ram  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  in  the  Township  and  met  with  Great  losses  in  his  creatures, 
to  consider  of  making  him  some  allowances  to  him  on  s''  accounts 
—  And  whereas  as  many  of  the  proprietors  have  neglected  to 
pay  in  their  tax  already  Voted  &  published  whereby  the  settle- 
ment of  the  town  is  greatly  retarded  and  other  proprietors  much 
damaged,  these  are  to  give  notice  that  on  the  loth  day  of  Dec' 
next  in  the  afternoon  there  will  be  a  public  Vendue  at  Mrs 
Pratts  house  in  Salem  the  following  houselots  with  their  after 
divisions  viz  i,  3,  4,  7,  9,  12,  14,  15,  17,  18,  20,  21,  24,  27, 
28,  29,  35,  39,  40,  43,  45,  47,  48,  49»  60.  61,  62. 

Dan*-  Epes  Jr  Proprietors  Clerk. 
Salem  Octo  28  1741 

A  List  of  the  persons  admitted  into  y"  Township  Granted  by 
the  General  Court  to  Cap*  Samuel  King  and  others  on  y"  first 
and  Second  Days  of  Septemb' :  Anno  x  736. 


d*. 


Cap*:  Samuel  King 

on  y* 

Right  of  Ensign  John  King 

Cap* :  Sam'  King 

"      John  King's  Servant 

Joseph  Blany»  Esq': 

"      Jos.  Blany 

M' :  Joseph  Sweei 

"      Jos.  Sweat 

W :  Roger  Derby 

"       Wm.  Derby 

M':  Daniel  Epes,  Jr. 

u 

M':  William  King 

"       Cap* :  Daniel  King 

M' :  Peter  Martin 

"      John  Martin 

M':  WiUiamHine 

"      Benj* :  Norman 

M' :  Daniel  Epes,  J'jn' : 

"       Edward  Britton 

W:  Thomas  Cloutman 

"       William  Potes 

M':  WUliamWebb 

"      John  Smith 

M» :  Benj.  Codner 

"      ChrUf:  Codner 

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50  ) 

SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

M»:  Joseph  Halctt         on  y* 

Right  0 

f  Thomas  White 

M':  Daniel  Epe»,  Jun': 

II 

John  Legroe 

M' :  David  Foster 

11 

Jonathan  Foster 

M' :  Bartholemew  Jackson  " 

George  Jackson 

M':  JohnDodd 

1. 

John  Dod 

M' :  Samuel  Osgood 

II 

John  Walk 

Mr :  Joseph  Hilliard 

II 

David  Hilliard 

M':  Joseph  Hilliard 

i< 

Joseph  Hilliard 

M' ;  Abell  Robinson 

It 

William  Robinson 

M' :  Corneliu*  Tarball 

II 

Nicholas  Ford 

Daniel  Epes,  Esq' : 

II 

John  Boen 

Daniel  Epes,  Esq' : 

II 

Richard  Blanch 

M' :  John  Gyles,  Jun' : 

II 

John  Andrews 

M' :  Jonathan  Peal 

11 

George  Peal 

M':  Ephraim  Ingalls 

II 

Sam':  Elsey 

M' :  John  Gardner 

II 

it 

michael  Coomes 

M':  Isaac  Williams 

II 

Jon*:  Williams 

M' :  Robert  Swan 

II 

Joel  Hunt 

M' :  Daniel  Epes,  Jun' : 

«i 

John  ]?ickwortb 

M':  Edward  Trask 

11 

William  Trask 

M' :  Isaac  Knap 

<i 

Isaac  Knap 

M' :  Simon  Orn 

II 

William  Norman 

M':  Simon  Orn 

II 

Archeball  Furgason 

M' :  Stephen  Daniel,  Jun 

II 

Stephen  Daniel 

M' :  John  Bartell 

II 

Thomas  Sortin 

M':  John  Bartell 

<i 

Robert  Bartell 

M» :  Benj.  Goodhue 

II 

Thomas  Searl 

M' :  Isaac  Knap 

II 

Jam* :  Knap 

M':  Joseph  English 

II 

Thomas  Beadle 

M» :  Samuel  Swi. 

II 

Stephen  Swasey 

M':  Joseph  Hilhwd 

II 

Edward  HUliard 

M' :  Jonathan  Very 

II 

John  Verry 

M' :  Jonathan  Very 

II 

John  Archer 

M':  John  Proctor 

II 

Benj» :  Procter 

M':  Phillip  English 

II 

Joshua  Hollingsworth 

Benjamin  Lynda,  Jun.  Esc 

r  II 

• 

it 

Peter  Collier 

Capt.  Joseph  Bowditch 

II 

n 

William  Bowditch 

M' :  Joseph  Killiard 

i< 

Richard  Petors 

M» :  William  Tapley 

II 

Robert  Tapley 

M' :  William  Tapley 

<i 

John  Tapley 

M' :  William  Dixey 

ti 

Samuel  Ducey 

Samuel  Wells,  Esq' : 

«< 

John  Beal 

M' :  Joseph  Clough 

i< 

Thomas  Hendley 

M' :  Joseph  Lambert 

II 

Samuel  Lambert 

M» :  Thomas  Trott 

<i 

Hilliard  WilliMas 

Joseph  Blany,  Esq': 

<« 

Nicholas  Menett 

- JjrtAWiaitiHi  t.tJ''!- 


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(  51  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN    1690. 

The  above  is  an  Exact  List  of  all  y'  pro*  names  who  are 
admitted  Grantees  into  y'  Township  Lying  West  of  the  Narra- 
gansett  Township  No.  3.  Samue".  Wells 

in  behalf  of  y*  Com' :  chosen  by  y*  Generall  Court  for  y'  pur- 
pose. 


IPSWICH    CANADA. 
[fpswicA  Records.'] 

14  May  1690  the  town  is  to  raise  its  part  of  twenty  men 
in  Essex  Middle,  to  strengthen  Albany  and  pursue  the  French 
and  Indians. 

4  June  1690  its  part  of  thirty  one  more  in  the  same  regi- 
ment, and  of  four  hundred  in  the  Province. 

19  June  Nathaniel  Rust  is  appointed  Quarter-master  for  the 
Canada  expedition. 

1 7  July  Ipswich  is  to  raise  its  quota  of  fifteen,  and  30  July 
of  four  hundred  and  eight  recruits  from  Essex  Middle  Regi- 
ment, which  are  to  be  under  Maj  Samuel  Appleton 


IPSWICH   CANADA,    WINCHENDON,    MASS. 

Essex,  ss.  At  a  Meeting  of  the  Committee  appointed  by 
the  General  Court  for  the  Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  in 
New  England,  to  lay  out  a  Township  of  the  contents  of  six 
miles  square,  in  answer  to  a  petition  of  Abraham  Til  ton  and 
others,  officers  and  soldiers  in  the  expedition  to  Canada,  Anno 
1 690,  the  following  persons  were  admitted  as  Grantees  of  said 
Township,  and  gave  bonds  to  fulfil  the  Court's  Order  thereon. 

Ipswich,  April  13th,  1736. 


Right  entered  on. 

Name, 

Abode. 

Father 

Thomas  Berry,  Esq. 

Ipswich 

Ovra 

Jonathan  Wade,  " 

(( 

« 

John  Harris, 

« 

M 

Thomas  Hovey, 

M 

« 

Abraham  Perkins, 

l< 

Husband  and  Father 

Widow  Rachel  Rust, 

M 

Own 

Abraham  Tilton, 

M 

« 

Benjamin  White, 

M 

«< 

bamuel  Poland, 

« 

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(    52    ) 
SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


Hif^Ai  enlered  on. 

Name. 

Abode. 

Brother  John 

Thomas  Lufkin, 
•  Thomas  Lufkin  is  • 

Ipswich. 

Brother  Jacob 

•  next  friend  to 
Mary  Lufkin 

« 

Uncle  Benedictus 

Ebenezer  Pulcepher, 

Gloucester 

Father  Moses 

Jahez  Sweet, 

Ipswich. 

Father's 

Solomon  Giddinge, 

« 

Brother  William 

Joseph  Goodhue, 

« 

Father's 

William  Haskell, 

Gloucester 

Brother  Thomas 

John  Ring, 

<i 

Uncle  Joseph 

Benjamin  Chadwell, 

Ipswich. 

Brother  John 

Edward  Nealand, 

«< 

Uncle  D.  Denison 

f  Nath.  Rogers  as  Guar-  •» 
t  dian  to  Jno.  Jcnison      j 

« 

Wife's  Father  Durgee 

John  Martin, 

« 

Father  Servant 

Isaac  Knowlton, 

« 

Father's 

John  Thompson, 

u 

Uncle  Joieph, 

f  John  Wood  in  the  room  of 

I  and  by  the  consent  of  his  fa'her 

« 

Father's 

f  John  Downing  by  Ed.  \ 
\  Eveleth  hi:  Attorney.    / 

Boston. 

O...I 

Thomas  Perrin, 

Rowley. 

« 

David  Low, 

Ipswich. 

Uncle  Moses  Pierce, 

Moses  Wells, 

« 

Brother  Thomas, 

George  Hart, 

« 

Father's 

William  Cogswell, 

« 

Brother  Elisha, 

Thomas  Tredwell, 

•< 

Brother  Benjaknin, 

Jonathan  Jewett,  Jun., 

Rowley. 

Father's, 

Robert  Cross, 

•  Ipswich. 

Own, 

Adam  Cogswell, 

« 

Uncle, 

Benjamin  Cha dwell. 

M 

Father  Whipple, 

The  Hon.  Simonds  Epes, 

l( 

Uncle  Freeman, 

Nathaniel  Clark, 

«< 

Brother  George, 

Nathaniel  Clark, 
•  Capt.  Edward  Eveleth  » 

« 

Dil.  Caldwell, 

■   by  and  at  the  request    >■ 
■  of  Dilingham  Caldwell  J 

Ipswich. 

Brother  William, 

Nathaniel  Caldwell, 

«< 

Father, 

Henry  Wise, 
e  Thomas  Norton,  Jan.,  at 

« 

John  Ayres, 

■j  the  request  of  Samuel 
I  Ayres,  a  Petitioner, 

« 

Own, 

John  Ross, 

H 

Father's, 

Isaac  Giddinge, 

« 

"■nBiiiaaiBB 


(  53  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 


R^ht  enttred  on. 

Name. 
■  Edward  Eveleth  at  the 

Ahodt. 

Thomas  Metcalf, 

■  request  of  Jos.  Metcalf    • 
a  Petitioner, 

Ipswich. 

Father's, 

Moses  Davis. 

« 

Grandfather, 

Ephraim  Fitts, 

M 

Pearce, 

Thomas  Boardman, 

« 

Edward  Chapman, 

«< 

John  Goodhue, 

« 

Uncle  Iiaac, 

Abraham  Foster,  Jun., 

« 

Major  Ward, 

Doct.  Nicholas  Noyes, 

Andover 

Father's, 

John  Pindar, 

Ipswich. 

Uncle  Samuel, 

Nathaniel  Lord, 

« 

Uncle  Edmond, 

Samuel  Ingalls, 

M 

Brother  Aaron, 

Moses  Kimball, 

M 

Uncle  Cheney, 

John  Leighton, 

it 

Rob't  Nolson, 

Joseph  Annable, 

Beverly. 

Math.  Hooker, 

Widow  Mary  Hooker, 
'  Thomas  Lord,  Jun.,  at  - 

Ipswich. 

Uncle  Saund, 

■  his  Father,  Jno.  Lord's  - 
request. 

« 

ROWLEY   CANADA. 

In  the  expedition  against  Quebec,  Rowley  furnished  one 
captain,  one  lieutenant,  and  thirty  non-commissioned  officers 
and  privates.  All  their  names  cannot  now  be  given,  but  the 
records,  under  date  of  May  6,  1691,  show  that  the  town 
paid  the  following-named  persons,  in  bills  of  credit,  the  sums 
set  against  their  respective  names,  for  military  services  in  Can- 
ada, viz. : 

[^Extracts  from   Town  Records.^ 

To  Samuel  Platts,  for  Lieut.  Platts, 

"  Joseph  Scott,    "  Sam'l  Brown, 

"  Capt.  Fisk,        "  Robert  Qaflin, 

"  Deacon  Jewett,  for  his  son  Ezekiel  Jewett, 

"  Thomas  Nelson,  Jr..  for  Samuel  French, 

"  Goody  Swan,      for  her  husband,  Richard  Swan, 

"  Widow  Wood,    "     "   son,  Ebcnezer  Wood, 

"  Margaret  Wood, "     "  husband,  Samuel  Wood, 

"  Mrs.  Hammond  and  Nath'l  Crosby,  for  Jona.  Crosby, 

"  Goody  Bradstreet,  for  her  husband,  Nath'l  Bradstreet, 


£.     ». 

d. 

13     1 

2 

4  17 

7 

4  12 

7 

S    0 

3 

4  IS 

II 

4  15 

17 

10     I 

2 

4   12 

9 

S    5 

7 

3  14 

3 

T^ 


■     ! 


1 

t 


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(  54  ) 

SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


To  Sergt.  Jewett, 
"  Grace  Harris, 
"  Sergt.  Nelson, 
"  Nathan  Wheeler, 


for  his  son,  William  Jewett, 
"  William  Searles, 
"   his  son,  Jona.  Nelson, 
"   Benjamin  Wheeler, 


£ 

s. 

d. 

4 

»4 

I 

6 

2 

O 

4 

»s 

5 

2 

lO 

o 

4 

II 

2 

S 

2 

7 

4 

IS 

3 

4 

12 

3 

I 

3 

2 

i8 

O 

i8 

o 

I 

12 

6 

"  Corp.  John  Pickard,  for  Jeremiah  Chadwell, 

"  John  Platts,  for  his  brother,  James  Platts, 

"  Caleb  Boynton,  for  his  son,  Wm.  Boynton, 

"  Goody  Todd,       "   her    "    Timothy  Todd, 

"  Goody  Todd,       "     "       "    Samuel  Todd, 

"  Goody  Todd,  for  her  son,  Timothy  Todd,  to  Quochicha, 

"  Widow  Wood  for  Solomon  Wood,  " 

"  Nathaniel  Crosby,  for  his  brother,  Jona.  Crosby.      " 

John  Bailey  died  November  19,  and  Moses  Wood,  Nov.  J5,  1690,  on  their  way 
from  Canada.    What  others  died  we  know  not. 

Capt.  Philip  Nelson  commanded  the  company  from  Rowley,  and,  by  the  peti- 
tion of  Joseph  Jewett,  Jr.,  to  the  Governor  and  Council,  under  date  of  April  33,  1691, 
it  appears  that  Captain  Nelson,  with  a  part  of  his  men  at  least,  on  board  of  Mr. 
Burrington's  brigantine,  Mr.  Bradlow,  commander,  were  driven  off  to  Barbadoes, 
where  Mr  Jewett's  man  (William  Lyncoln)  was  left,  and  perhaps  others  with  him. 

In  Mass.  Archives,  Vol.  37,  p.  49,  an  account  of  g^ns,  etc.,  used  by  the  following 
Rowley  men  are  mentioned : 

Dr.  David  Bennett,  William  Lincoln, 

William  Brown,  Edward  Ranee, 

John  Hidens,  Sergeant  Spofford, 

Timothy  Holms,  '         Samuel  Smith, 

William  Jewets,  Capt.  Philip  Nelson. 


ROWLEV    CANADA,    RINDGE,    N.H. 
(its   equivalent,    BRIDGTON,   ME.) 
[Mass.  House  Journal,  June  2,  /7j6.] 
A  Petitiori  of  Joseph  Pike  for  himself  and   sundry  others, 
Officers  and  Soldiers  in  the  Canada  Expedition  Anno  1690, 
shewing  that   they  have  formerly  petitioned  this  Court  for  a 
Township,  which  has  never  yet  had  the  favor  of  passing  thro'  the 
whole  Court,  praying  they  may  now  obtain  the  Grant  of  a  Town- 
ship in  some  suitable  placi  in  consideration  of  their  services  and 
sufferings  in  that  Expedition,  for  the  reasons  mentioned.    Read 
and  Ordered,  That  this  Petitic.i  be  taken  under  consideiation 
to  morrow  morning. 

\^Mass.  House  Journal,  June  4,  /7j6.] 
The  Petition  of  Joseph  Pike  for  himself  and  others,  Canadz 
Officers  and  Soldiers,  as  also  the  Petition  oi  John  Plaits  and 


I  : 


(  55  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

John  Stewart^  Canada  Officers  and  Soldiers  Anno  1690,  pray- 
ing for  Lands,  as  entred  the  second  currant.  Read  again,  and 
Ordered^  That  Capt.  Hobson  and  Capt.  Rolfe,  be  desired  to 
prepare  proper  Votes  in  favour  of  the  Petitions,  subjecting  the 
Settlement  of  the  Lands  to  the  Usual  Conditions  of  Settlement. 


\_Mass.  House  Journal,  Dec.  9,  /7j6.] 

A  Petition  of  John  Tyler  and  Joseph  Pike  and  other  Canada 
Soldiers  Anno  1690,  as  entred  the  21th.  oi  June  1735  was  read, 
and  the  House  came  into  the  Grant  of  a  Township  of  the  con- 
tents of  six  miles  square,  in  some  suitable  place,  on  the  same 
Conditions  of  Settlement  with  the  former,  and  Capt.  Hobson^ 
and  Major  Charles  Pierce,  with  such  as  the  honourable  Board 
shall  join  be  the  Committee. 

Sent  up  for  concurrence. 


\^Mass,  House  Journal,  Jan.  io,  /j'jS-g.'] 

A  Plat  containing  six  Miles  square  of  Land,  with  an  Allowance 
of  ten  thousand  Acres  for  ten  large  Ponds  and  a  large  shrub 
Swamp  about  four  Miles  in  length,  surveyed  and  laid  out  by 
Nathanael  Haywood,  Surveyor,  and  two  Chain-Men  on  Oath, 
to  satisfy  a  Grant  of  this  Court  made  to  John  Tyler,  Joseph  Pike, 
and  others,  that  were  either  Officers  or  Soldiers  ir  the  Canada 
Expedition  Anno  1690,  bounded  as  follows,  viz.  Beginning  at 
a  Maple  Tree  th  northerly  Corner  of  Dorchester  Canada  Town- 
ship, from  thence  running  North  32  gr.  East  two  Miles  and  100 
PoIps  to  a  heap  of  Stones,  Thence  North  22  gr.  East  four  Miles 
then  e  North  one  Mile  till  it  meets  with  the  said  Township 
granti  1  to  Samuel  Heywood  &c.,  thence  West  four  Miles  by  the 
said  T  wnship  to  a  southwesterly  Corner  thereof,  thence  North 
by  said  Township  three  Miles  and  220  Poles,  thence  West  30  gr. 
South  five  Miles  and  180  Perch  to  a  wild  Cherry  Tree  on  the 
Southward  of  the  great  Monadnuck  aforesaid,  thence  South  180 
Perch,  thence  East  41  gr.  South  2500  Perch  to  a  heap  of  Stones, 
then  North  1 2  gr.  East  one  Mile  to  the  northwardly  Comer  of 


(  56  ) 

SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


Dorchester  Canada  Township,  being  the  Miple  Tree  first 
mentioned.  Read  and  Ordered,  That  the  Plat  be  accepted,  and 
the  Lands  therein  delineated  and  described,  be  and  hereby  are 
confirmed  to  the  Grantees,  their  Heirs  and  Assigns  respectively 
forever,  they  effectually  complying  with  the  Conditions  of  the 
Grant,  provided  the  Plat  exceeds  not  the  contents  of  six  Miles 
square,  with  the  Allowance  of  ten  thousand  Acres  for  ten  large 
Ponds  and  a  large  shrub  Swamp  included  therein,  and  does  not 
interfere  with  any  former  Grant. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 


i  * 


\J 


PEXrnON   OF  PROPRIETORS   OF   RIKDGE,    1 760. 
\^Mass.  Archives,  Vol.  iiy,  p.  61/.'] 

To  His  Excellency  Francis  Bernard  Esq'  Govemour  &  Com- 
mander in  Chief  of  His  Majesties  Province  of  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  in  New  England  &c  — 

To  the  Hon"*  His  Majesties  Council  &  House  of  Representa- 
tives 'n  General  Court  Ass'^mbled  the  Seventeenth  Day  of  Dec' 
A.D.  1760  — 

The  PETmoN  of  Benjamin  MuUickin  Thomas  Perly  &  Moody 
Bridges  Agents  for  the  Proprietors  of  a  Township  Called  & 
known  by  the  Name  of  Rowly  Cannada  —  Humbly  Sheweth  — 

That  the  great  &  General  Court  of  the  Province  Afores"*  Made 
a  Grant  of  a  Tract  of  Land  of  the  Contents  of  Six  Miles  Square 
to  John  Tyler  Joseph  Pike  &  others  officers  &  Soldiers  in  the 
Cannada  Expedition  AD  1 690  As  a  Gratuity  for  their  Service 
in  s"  Expedition 

That  on  the  23^  Day  of  January  AD  1 739  a  Plot  of  s*"  Township 
was  Retum'd  to  the  Court  by  the  Com'**  Appointed  to  Lay  out 
the  Same,  which  was  made  Large  On  Account  of  Sundry  Ponds  & 
a  Large  Shrub  Swamp  Contain'd  in  the  Bounds  thereof  Which  was 
Accepted  wl.h  this  Restriction  that  Five  Thousand  Acres  Only 
Should  be  Allow'd  for  ponds  &c  &  the  Com'°*  were  Directed  to 
Conform  the  Plot  Accordingly,  Which  Business  of  s**  Com***  in 
Correcting  s"*  Plot  waspostpon'd  'till  A.D.  1741  When  the  Divid- 
ing Line  between  s**  Province  &  the  Province  of  New  Hampshire 


(  57  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

was  Run  which  took  the  Greatest  Part  of  s**  Township  into  s*" 
province  of  New  Hapshire  Therefore  s**  Com"*  Never  Con- 
formed s''  Plot  According  to  Court  order  — 

But  may  it  Please  Your  Excellency  &  Hon"  The  Proprietors 
of  s^  Township  Look'd  upon  themselves  as  Haveing  Good  Right 
to  a  Township  of  the  Contents  of  Six  Miles  Square  within  the 
Limmits  of  s**  Plot  Nothwithstanding  the  Neglect  of  s**  Com***  in 
Conforming  s"*  Plot  to  the  order  of  Court  &  Nothwithstanding 
the  greatest  part  of  it  Fell  into  the  Government  of  New  Hamp- 
shire by  the  Settlement  of  s^  Line  For  Haveing  had  Recourse  to 
the  Commission  of  His  Majesty  For  Marking  out  the  Dividing 
Line  of  s^  Provinces  they  were  Inform'd  that  His  Majesty  was 
Graciously  Pleased  to  make  a  Declaration  Against  private  Prop- 
erty being  Affected  thereby  And  they  were  Secure  that  Nothing 
would  Impeach  or  Affect  their  Right  to  that  part  of  s**  Township 
that  Remain'd  in  the  province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  — 

Wherefore  the  better  to  Extend  His  Majesties  Dominions  & 
to  promote  their  own  Interest  the  s''  prop"  took  Courage  &  began 
to  make  Improvements  AD  1742  And  by  great  Labour  &  Ex- 
pence  in  Clearing  Roads  Building  of  Mills  &  Provideing  Mate- 
rials for  a  Meeting  House  for  the  Publick  Worship  of  God  the 
Charges  of  the  prop"  were  greatly  Augmented  But  the  Com- 
mencement of  a  War  with  the  Savages  greatly  Retarded  the  Set- 
tlement of  s^  Township  But  as  Soon  as  the  war  was  over  they 
Return'd  to  their  Possessions  &  made  good  progress  in  Bringing 
Forward  Settlements  till  A.D.  1749  When  the  Hon"*  Joseph 
Blanchard  Esq"  of  Dunstable  Signified  to  s"  prop"  that  s**  Town- 
ship was  Claim'd  by  Certain  Gentlemen  in  New  Hampshire 
Afores"*  by  Virtue  of  an  Ancient  Patent  Called  Masons  Patent 
which  Moved  s**  prop"  to  Send  a  Com'**  to  Treat  with  the  s** 
Joseph  Blanchard  Esq'  (Who  Represented  s**  Gentlemen)  In 
order  For  an  Accommodation  Whom  when  they  had  Treated 
upon  the  premises  were  in  Suspense  whither  s^  Township  was 
Included  in  s**  patent  and  So  they  let  the  Matter  Subside  till  they 
Could  Measure  from  the  Sea  Sixty  Miles  west  to  find  the  Extent 
of  it  which  Accordingly  was  Done  at  the  Expence  of  s**  prop" 
and  they  found  that  a  Township  of  the  Contents  of  Six  Miles 
Square  Might  be  made  within  the  Limmits  of  s'  plot  which  s'" 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


patent  Could  Not  Affect  and  Accordingly  Return  was  made  to 
Col"  Blanchard  that  s**  Sixty  Mile  Line  took  so  Inconsiderable  a 
part  of  What  was  Included  in  s**  Plot  that  they  tho't  it  Not  Con- 
venient to  Ask  for  it  Seeing  they  Had  Enough  for  a  Township 
without  it 

And  Now  may  it  Please  your  Excellency  &  Hon"  Notwith- 
standing the  Caution  of  s*"  Prop"  in  Labouring  to  Secure  to 
themselves  if  possible  the  Benefit  of  their  Labour  Said  Township 
was  Granted  by  the  proprietors  of  s**  Patent  to  a  Number  of 
Men  who  were  not  of  the  Prop"  of  Rowly  —  Cannada  Afores** 
Nor  had  s"*  Proprietors  Ever  after  s^  Treaty  with  CoP  Blanchard 
An  offer  of  s''  Township  But  were  Utterly  Excluded  by  the 
Afores**  Grant  and  on  the  5""  Day  of  Sept'  AD  1 75 1  An  Action 
was  Commenced  Against  One  Joseph  Plats  of  the  proprietors 
Holding  Under  the  Massach*'  Government  by  One  Sam"  Johnson 
Holding  under  the  Proprietors  of  s**  patent  which  after  Several 
Years  Continuance  from  Term  to  Term  Judgment  was  Finally 
made  up  in  the  Superior  Court  in  Favour  of  s**  Johnson  &  Exe- 
cution Issued  in  the  Imprisonment  of  s'^  Plats  &  Terminated  in 
great  Cost  &  Expence  to  s^  prop"  &  in  the  Loss  of  s**  Township 
For  Notwithstanding  s"  proprietors  Prov'd  their  Right  to  s" 
Township  as  Granted  by  the  province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
&  that  it  Laye  without  s**  Patent  &  prov'd  their  Right  to  the  Soil 
by  Virtue  of  the  Deed  of  the  Massachusetts  province  from  the 
Council  of  Plymouth  &  his  Majesties  Direction  Against  private 
Property  being  affected  by  the  Settlement  of  the  Line  as  Afores*^ 
Yet  it  was  AHedged  &  strongly  Urg'd  that  the  Massachusetts 
Government  was  None  other  than  a  Corporation  and  that  there- 
fore they  had  No  Right  in  Fee  to  the  Soil  of  their  own  Province 
Much  less  to  Rowly  Cannada  which  Lay  in  New  hampshire  So 
that  the  proprietors  wer  Discouraged  from  Makeing  any  Further 
Trial  in  the  Courts  of  New  hampshire  And  were  Obliged  to 
Evacuate  their  Settlements  And  \he  prop"  Holding  Under  the 
Lords  of  s**  Patent  Have  taken  Possession  of  the  Houses  & 
Lands  of  the  prop"  of  s"  Rowly  Cannada  Nor  have  they  been 
Able  to  Obtain  Any  Redress  Haveing  Apply'd  to  the  Prop"  of 
s**  Patent  &  to  the  prop"  Holding  Under  them  but  all  to  No 
purpose  The  Prop"  Also  as  Individuals  have  Apply'd  to  those 


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who  Enjoy  their  Houses  &  the  Benefit  of  their  Labour  But  there 
is  Not  a  Single  Instance  wherein  any  one  of  them  have  ReC 
Any  Consideration  — 

That  the  Great  &  General  Court  of  the  provinc  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Through  Some  Miss  Information  (as  Your  Peti- 
tioners Conceive)  Did  in  the  Year  1752  make  Sale  of  Several 
Thousand  Acres  of  Land  Included  in  the  afores^  Plot  which  Lay 
in  the  Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Afores**  &  was  Not 
taken  off  by  the  Dividing  Line  of  s**  Provinces  So  that  the  prop" 
Have  Now  No  Dependance  but  upon  the  Interposition  c*"  the 
great  &  General  Court  afores"  for  Relief  in  their  Unfortunate  &: 
Distressing  Circumstances  — 

Therefore  Your  Petitioners  in  Behalf  of  the  prop"  of  Rowly 
Cannada  Afores**  Humbly  Intreat  Your  Excellency  &  Hon"  to 
Take  the  premises  into  your  Wise  Consideration  and  in  Your 
great  Wisdom  &  Justice  Grant  them  the  Relief  which  they  Hum- 
bly Crave  (viz)  That  the  Charges  S**  prop"  have  been  at  in 
Bringing  forward  the  Settlement  of  s**  Township  may  be  Reim- 
bursted  tc  them  By  An  Act  of  the  Great  &  General  Court 
Afores**  To  Enable  them  to  Raise  the  Sum  of  Twelve  Hundred 
&  Eighty  two  pounds  Six  Shillings  &  Nine  pence  by  a  Lottery 
which  they  have  Expended  in  the  Concerns  of  s"  Township  (viz) 
Six  Hundred  &  Eighty  two  pounds  Six  Shillings  &  Nine  pence 
thereof  in  Taxes  which  Have  been  Levied  upon  s^  proprietors  & 
Six  Hundred  thereof  (at  the  Lowest  Computation)  which  hath 
been  Expended  in  Buildings  &  Bringing  forward  Settlements 
Also  That  the  Court  would  be  Graciously  pleased  to  Make  them 
a  Grant  of  2  745  Acres  of  Land  to  be  taken  up  in  the  Unappro- 
priated Lands  of  the  Government  in  Lieu  of  So  much  Land 
Included  in  the  Afores**  Plot  Lying  in  s**  Massachusetts  Province 
Sold  by  the  Court  as  Afores**  or  Some  other  way  Relieve  s**  pro- 
prietors as  to  your  Excellency  &  Hon"  Shall  Seem  Meet  And 
Your  Memorialists  as  in  Duty  Bound  Shall  Ever  Pray  — 

Benj^  Mullicken  -j  Agents  for  the 
Thomas  Perlev     >     Prop"  of 
Moody  Bridges    )  Rowly  Cannada 

Swome  to  by  Benj°  MuUiken  Esq'  Moody  Bridges  Esq'  about 


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SOCIETY   OF   COLONIAL  WARS. 

2700  Acres  Lying  on  this  Side  the  Line  Sold  by  this  Province 
to  Royalchier 

AMOUNTS   EXPENDED    BY    RINDOE   PROPRIETORS. 
[Mass,  Archives,  Vol.  117,  p.  d/j.] 

Att  a  Meeting  of  the  Grantees  of  a  Township  Granted  to 
John  Tyler  Joseph  Pike  &  others  officers  &  Soldiers  in  the 
Expedition  to  Canada  anno  1690 — at  Rowley  the  fourteenth 
Day  of  Feb'  1738  — 

Voted  ;^3=i8=  6  to  be  Pa^d  on  Each  Right  to  Defray  the 
Charg  of  Runing  the  Line  Round  the  Township  &  marking  the 
Same  and  Viewing  for  the  first  Division  Lots  &c 

at  .^ meeting  of  s**  Prop"  January  26  :  1742/3  Voted  j[,\—-  00 
old  Tenor  to  be  Paid  on  Each  Right  to  him  that  Shall  Build  a 
Sawmill  in  s**  Township  — 

att  a  meeting  of  s**  Proprietors  on  the  22  Day  of  June  1743 
Voted  that  ;^3==oo  old  Tenor  Be  Paid  on  Each  Right  to 
Defray  the  Charge  of  Building  a  meeting  House  In  Said  Town- 
ship — 

at  a  meeting  of  s**  Prop"  Nov'  7  :  1 749  Voted  £,^1  old  Tenor 
to  be  Paid  on  Each  Right  to  Defray  Charges  — 

At  a  meeting  of  s^  Prop"  March  28  :  1750  Voted  one  Pound 
old  Tenor  to  be  Paid  on  Each  Right  to  Defray  Charges  — 

At  a  meeting  of  s"*  Prop"  Dec'  25  :  1750  Voted  j£i= /\*/ 
Lawful  money  to  be  Paid  on  Each  Right  to  Defray  Charges  — 

At  a  meeting  of  s"*  Prop"  October  y*  2  2  :  1 75 1  Voted  jQ^  =  0=  8 
to  be  Paid  on  Each  PJght  to  Defray  Charges  — 

At  a  meeting  of  s^  Prop"  on  y"  11  Day  of  June  1754  Voted 
that  jQ^/  be  Paid  on  Each  Right  to  Defray  Charges  — 

At  a  meeting  of  s^  Prop"  on  y*  16  Day  of  Dec'  1758  Voted 
that  Six  Shillings  be  Paid  on  Each  Right  to  Defray  Charges — 

Attest  Tho^  Perlev  Prop  :  Clerk 

The  Several  Sums  Voted  as  abovs**  amounts  tO;^ii  =  5=2 
on  Each  Right  There  being  61  Rights  in  s^  Township  the  Sum 
total  is  686  =  15  =  2  Lawful  mony 


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THE  EXPEDITION  TO   C.\NADA   IN    1690. 

STATEMENT  OF   ABEL   LAWRENCE. 
\^Mass.  Archives,  Vol.  117,  p.  6/9.] 

In  Compliance  with  your  Desire  that  I  would  Committ  to 
wrighting  the  Princaple  Facts  I  recollect  relating  to  Abel  Platts 
Joseph   Platts,  and  Josiuh    Ingalls,  SufTerings  and  losses  on 
account  of  their  lands  in  Rowley  Cannada  being   Taken  from 
them  by  the  Propriators  claiming  under  Jn°  Tufton  Mason  Esq' 
in  the  Province  of  New  Hampshire  —  I  have  to  Inform  you 
that  I  am  Knowing  that  Abel  Platts,  Joseph  Platts  &  Josiah 
Ingalls,  with  their  famileys  were  Some  of,   if  not  y*  very  first 
Settlers  in  that  Township  under  the  Grant  of  this  Province  that 
Each  of  them  have  made  Considerable  Improvements  and  have 
Considerable  Buildings  on  y*  Same  —  That  3ince  the  Claimers 
from  y*  Side  of  New  Hampshire  Entered  on  the  Township  and 
Possessed  themselves  of  the  Greatest  Part  of  it  Abel  &  Joseph 
Platts  kept  the  Possession  of  their  Farms  for  Sundry  Years,  after 
and  Even  untill  the  Titles  of  those  lands  were  Settled  by  a  Judg- 
ment of  the  Superiour  Court  of  the  Said  Province  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, against  the  Said  Joseph  Platts,  and  he  was  Ejected  out  of 
the  Possession  of  Said  lands  and  not  being  able  to  pay  the 
Charges  was  Imprisoned  in  Portsmouth  Goal,  if  I  mistake  not 
more  than  Six  months  when  he  was  releived  by  the  help  of  his 
friends  —  That  aboute  this  time  I  Purchased  a  Right  in  Said 
Township,  from  those  who  held  under  M'  Mason  which  hap- 
pned   to  be  a  part  of  the  Same  lands  which  M'  Ingalls,  had 
Improved  by  virtue  of  the  Grant  of  this  Government  —  which 
lands  I  have  Since  Sold  s**  Ingalls  —  now  being  a  Propriator 
under  Mason  was  Chosen  Clerk  for  y*  Propriators  of  Said  Town- 
ship &  Served  for  them  Several  Years  —  and  am  Certain  that 
nither  Abel  Platts,  Joseph  Platts,  nor  Josiah  Ingalls,  nor  Either  of 
them  were  Ever  favoured  or  ever  had  in  that  township  :   (I  never 
heard  they  had  in  any  other)  any  allowance  or  Consideration 
for  their  losses  either  from  New  Hampshire  or  this  Province, 
I  also  am  knowing  to  the  Piatt's  Living  on  those  Lands  when 
Fitchs  Garrison  fifteen  miles  on  this  side   was  Taken  Two 
Soldiers  kill''  &  Fitch  &  family  Captivatied  I  have  heard  the  Peti- 
tions red  think  the  facts  are  true  &  that  they  are  noways  Exag- 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL   WARS. 

gerated  &  that  the  Petitioners  are  amoang  the  greatest  Sufferres 
occation  by  the  ninning  of  the  line  &c  &c  &c  —  I  am  Gentle- 
men your  most  obedient  Humble  Servant  — 

Abel  Lawrence 


The  following  are  the  names  of  the  original  grantees : 


Capt.  John  Tyler, 
Benjamin  Millikin, 
James  Bridges, 
Nathan  Symonds, 
James  Chandler, 
James  Stuart, 
Samuel  Goodridge, 
Thomas  Wood, 
John  Abbot, 
Josiah  Ingalls, 
Joshua  Jackson, 
Samuel  Dickinson, 
William  Bennett, 
Joseph  Nelson, 
John  Martin, 
John  Holmes, 
William  Knowlton, 
James  Bayley, 
David  Kimball, 


Joseph  Hidden, 
Moses  Burnam, 
John  Platts, 
Nathaniel  Jewett, 
John  Jewett,  Jr., 
Benjamin  Bellows, 
Capt.  Joshua  Swan, 
Joseph  Hale, 
Stephen  Person, 
William  Martin, 
Richard  Perl, 
Jonathan  Gosbe, 
J       than  Jewett, 
Nuinaniel  Fellows, 
John  Brocklebank, 
James  Platts,  Jr., 
Thomas  Carleton, 
Benjamin  Duch, 
Anthony  Dike, 


Amos  Pilsbury, 
Stephen  Peabody, 
Ezekiel  Mighel, 
Jeremiah  Jewett, 
Thomas  Poor, 
Samuel  Austin, 
Abraham  Brown, 
John  Page, 
Joseph  Coffin, 
Thomas  Plumer, 
Thomas  Webster, 
Aaron  Dresser, 
Ephraim  Wctherby, 
Elisha  Davis, 
Daniel  Potter, 
Moses  Platts, 
John  Penny, 
Ephraim  Nelson, 
Michael  Hopkinson. 


BRiDGTON,  MAINE.     Incorporated  7  Feb.,  1794. 


NEWBURY   CANADA.      BAKERSTOWN,    SALISBURY,    N.H. 

1690.  August  7th.  "These  arc  in  his  majesty's  name  to 
require  all  the  soldiers  belonging  to  this  towne  to  bring  their 
arms  and  ammunition  to  ye  meeting  house  evary  saboth  day  and 
at  all  other  publick  meetings,  and  also  they  ar  required  to 
carry  their  arms  and  amunition  with  them  into  meadows  and 
places,  where  they  worke,  and  if  any  man  doe  refuse  or  neglect 
his  dewty  as  above  expressed  he  shal  pay  five  shillings  for  every 
such  neglect. 

"  Daniel  Pierce,  captain.    Jona  Moores,  lieutenant 

"  Thomas  Noyes,  captain.    Jacob  Toppan,  ensign. 

*'  Steph.  Greenleaf,  captain.     Henry  somerby." 


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July  15th.  "John  March  is  appointed  a  captain  of  one  of 
the  companies  for  the  Canada  expedition,  and  ordered  to  enlist 
a  company  under  him." 

{Mnobury  Records.) 


[Mass.  Archives,  Vol.  j6,  p.  //j.] 

CAPT.   march's   company   OF  THE    ESSEX   NORTH    REG*  1". 

Capt.  John  Murch,  Newbury 
Lt.  Stephen  Johnson,  Andover 
Enseigne  Lawrence  Hart 


John  Vie  (Ivie?) 
John  Browne. 
John  Davis. 
Edward  Bele.  (Bailey?) 
Edward  Goodwin. 
Benjamin  Goodrige. 
Henry  Dowe. 
John  Badger. 
Thomas  Heirs  (Ayer?) 
Percival  Chubb. 
Samuel  Austin 
Richard  Kent 
Benjamin  Kimbal. 
Joseph  Gold. 
Ephraim  Hoit 
John  Prowse 


Thomas  Barit.4rd 
Ralph  Blagdon 
John  Poor 
John  Huse 
Beniamin  Poor 
Samuel  George 
John  VVallingford 
John  Taylor 
George  Everson 
Samuel  Smith. 
Henry  Lunt 
John  Sweat 
Thomas  Cotton 
Joseph  Andrews 
Nathaniel  Crosbey 
John  Ring 


[Mass.  House  journal,  Dec.  j,  1734."] 
A  Petition  of  John  Tyler  and  Joseph  Pike,  for  themselves  and 
sundry  others ;  who  enlisted  themselves  into  the  publick  Service 
Anno  1690,  in  the  Expedition  against  Canada,  under  the  com- 
mand of  the  late  Sir  Wiluam  Phipps,  Knt.  deceased,  praying 
that  in  consideration  of  their  services  and  difficulties  they  then 
underwent,  they  may  obtain  a  Grant  of  Land  of  the  contents 
of  six  miles  square  of  the  ungranted  Lands  of  the  Province  on 
the  east  side  of  Merrimack  River,  southerly  on  Rumford  Town- 
ship, and  to  extend  three  miles  east  from  the  River,  or  some 
other  suitable  place  for  a  Township  for  the  reasons  mentioned. 
Read  and  Ordered,  That  Col.   Chandler,  Col.  Kent,  Mr  Hale 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL   WARS. 

Capt.  Hobson  Col.  Wainwright,  Col.  Churchy  and  Capt.  Welk 
be  a,  Committee  to  take  this  Petition,  and  the  other  Petitions 
for  Lands  now  before  the  Court  under  ( onsideratior.  and  rcsiort 
their  opinion  what  may  be  proper  to  be  done  in  aswer  thereto. 


\_Maii.  Archives,  Vol.  /14,  p.  179.'] 
ord  for  Col"  Tho'  Berry  to  Call  a  meeting  of  Grantees  of  the 
Township  Laid  out  Westerly  of  Merrimack  River  and  Northerly 
of  and  adjoyning  to  Contoocook  January  10,  1739  — 

In  the  House  of  Representatives  January  9"*  1739  —  Ordered 
that  Thomas  Berry  Esq'  be  and  hereby  is  impowered  to  assem- 
ble the  Grantees  of  the  Township  Lying  on  Merrimack  River 
Granted  to  the  Officers  &  Soldiers  in  tl  Expedition  to  Canada 
Anno  :  1690  —  under  the  Command  of  Cap'  John  March  Cap* 
Stephen  Greenleaf  and  Cap'  Philip  Nelson  in  Such  Place  and  at 
Such  time  as  he  Shall  think  fit  then  to  Chuse  a  Moderator  and 
Proprietors  Clark  to  agree  uppon  Rules  Methods  &  orders  for 
the  Division  and  Disposall  of  Said  Propriety  in  the  most  proper 
methods  for  the  Speedy  fullfillments  of  the  Conditions  of  there 
Grant  and  to  agree  uppon  methods  for  the  Calling  future  meet- 
ings- 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence 

Ebenezer  Pumrov  Spk'  Pro  tempore 


In  Councill  January  10"'  1739 
Read  and  Concurred 
Consented  to 
A  true  Copy  Examined  by 


Simon  Frost  Dep'  Sec' 
Jonathan  Belcher  — 
Simon  Frost  Dep'  Sec' 


Essex  ss  Ipswich  January  26"'  1739 

In  obedience  to  the  foregoing  ord''  I  have  Caused  notifica- 
tions to  be  Posted  in  the  towns  of  Newbury  Almsbury  and 
Haverhill  appointing  the  meeting  to  be  February  12"*  1739  at 
the  House  of  m'  Tristram  Greenleaf  in  Newbury  at  ten  of  the 
Clock  before  noon. 

Thomas  Berry 


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THE   IXfflMVtON  TO  CANADA   IN    1690. 

February  M'^i^ft^  The  aforegoing  Copys  when  Compared 
with  thti  (  igiiMl  Book  ^>f  the  Proprietors  Records  &  Agreed 
theie  with 

by  |t>it»i  WiNSLOw  one  of  the  Committee 

Mamusi   OtMMiH  ^wom« 


[M^M  ^«klt/M.  Vol.  1/4,  p.  178.] 
A  Hal  ot  the  l'u\|ilrt4tors  of  the  Township  Granted  to  Pike 
and  other  officers  and  Soldiers  in  the  expedition  to  Canada 
Anno  1690  under  the  Command  of  Cap'  John  March  Cap* 
Stephen  Greenleaf  and  Cap'  Philip  Nelson  and  was  laid  Westerly 
of  merrimack  River  and  Northerly  of  and  adjoyning  to  Contoo- 
cook  by  Richard  Hazzen  Surveyor  at  the  Direction  of  the 
Honourable  Thomas  Berry  Esq'  Charles  Peirce  &  John  Hobson 
Esq"  October  23"*  1739  who  were  allowed  and  approved  of  by 
the  Honourable  Thomas  Berry  Esq'  Charles  Peirce  &  John 
Hobson  Esq'  Nov'  30,  1 739  and  are  as  followeth  Vizt  — 


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Ifica- 
and 

the 


Capt.  Stephen  Greenleaf 
Joseph  Sage  Ju' 
Caleb  Moody 
Joseph  Osgood 
Capt  John  Sargeant 
Sam>  Smith  Ju' 
Gideon  Lowel 
Thomas  Huse 
Joseph  Pike 
Stephen  Longfellow 
Cap*  Thomas  Hale 
John  March 
Joseph  Davis 
Sam'  Silver 
Eleazer  Hudson 
Jonathan  Blaisdall 
David  Bartlet 
Lazarus  Goodwin 
Edward  Emerson 
Perdval  Clark 


Deacon  Joshua  Moody 
Elisha  Sweat 
Nath"  Qerk 
Samuel  George 
Benj*  Uoeg 
Jonathan  Marsh 
Stephen  Chase 
John  Lunt 
James  Brown 
Samuel  Bartlet  3^ 
Jeremiah  Gutteridge 
Rev*  William  Johnson 
Henry  Dow 
Robert  Savory 
D'  Joseph  Hills 
James  Toppon 
Peter  Ayers 
James  Anderton 
Zachariah  Beal 
Ebenezer  Stuart 


Joseph  Gould 
John  Kent 
John  Thurlo 
Hannah  Bolton 
John  Badger 
Joseph  Ilsley 
Joseph  Short 
Abraham  Titcomb 
Stephen  Longfellow 
Nathaniel  Bernard 
Cap'  Thos  Wallingford 
W^Huse 
Sam'  Sargeant 
Tristram  Greenleaf 
Thomas  Challis 
Dan"  Bradley 
Eleazer  Johnson 
John  Littlehale 
Cap*  John  Sergeant 
Joseph  Holland 


Its  equivalent  township  was  Poland,  Maine. 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL   WARS. 
SUDBURV    CANADA,  BETHEL,    MAINE. 

I  Josiah  Richardson,  of  lawful  age,  do  testify  and  say  that 
ever  since  tl  j  year  1737  I  have  acted  as  an  agent  for  a  number 
of  Petitioners  whose  Ancestors  were  in  the  Expedition  to  Canada 
in  the  year  1690,  and  in  the  year  1737  I  in  behalf  of  myself  and 
my  associates  preferred  a  Petition  to  the  Honorable  Great  and 
General  Court  praying  for  a  grant  of  land  to  be  made  to  us  on 
account  of  our  said  Ancestors  being  in  the  said  Expedition,  (as 
many  others  had)  for  their  great  suffering  and  Service  in  the  said 
Expedition,  and  that  by  a  great  number  of  Memorials  I  have 
renewed  the  said  Petition  from  time  to  time  and  now  I  do 
testify  and  declare  that  to  my  certain  knowledge  there  never  as 
yet  has  been  any  grant  of  land  made  to  them  on  account  of 
their  Ancestors  being  in  the  said  expedition. 

Witness  my  hand  this  23d  day  of  May,  1768. 
(Signed) 

Josiah  Richardson. 

a  petition  to  "'he  mass.  bav  government  2^  may  '.767 
Josiah  Richardson  of  Sudbury,  in  the  County  of  Middlesex, 
Esq.  and  Agent  for  a  number  of  Petitioners  whose  Ancestors 
wtre  in  the  Expedition  to  Canada  in  the  year  1690. 

Humbly  remind  your  Excellency  and  Honors,  that  in  the  year 
1737,  a  number  of  men  whose  names  are  hereunto  annexed, 
Preferred  a  Petition  to  this  Honorable  Court  for  to  have  a  Grant 
of  Land  for  a  Township,  to  be  Layed  out  in  the  unappropriated 
land  within  the  said  Province,  as  many  others  for  the  same  merit 
before  had  township  Granted  to  them  ;  and  this  Honorable  did 
then  sustain  the  Petition  and  then  ordered  the  said  Petitioners 
to  make  out  and  prove  their  claims  that  their  Ancestors  were  in 
the  said  Expedition  and  come  and  they  should  be  heard  with 
which  order  of  Court  the  said  Petitioners  fully  complied,  and  at 
a  great  cost  proved  their  claims.  Since  which  by  a  number  of 
Memorials  to  this  Honorable  Court  the  said  Petition  has  bef'ii 
revived,  but  the  said  Petitioners  have  not  as  yet  had  any  Grant 
of  Land  made  to  them  on  that  account  and  by  reason  of  the 
Wars  and  of  the  Town  house  being  burned  the  same  Petition 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

has  not  of  lats  been  moved  to  this  Honorable  Court,  but  since 
this  Honorable  Court  in  their  great  wisdom  and  justice  was 
pleased  on  the  24th  day  of  June,  1 764,  to  make  a  Grant  of  a 
Township  of  land  to  Captain  William  Raymond  and  Company 
for  the  same  nierit  which  your  Memorial  is  now  plead ;  and  now 
your  Memorialist,  in  behalf  of  himself  and  Company  Humbly 
pray  that  your  Excelhncy  and  Honors  would  take  the  premises 
under  your  wise  and  just  consideration  and  make  us  a  Grant  of 
Land  for  a  Township  as  you  was  pleased  to  do  to  the  said 
W  "iam  Raymond  and  Company,  and  your  Memorialist,  in  be- 
half of  himself  and  Ccr.pany  shall  ever  pray. 

(Signed)  Josiah  Richardson, 

>     / '   \        Agent  for  the  said  Petitioners. 


A  list  of  the  names  of  the  original  petitioners  is  also  on  record 
in  the  handwriting  of  Josiah  Richardson,  in  the  Massachusetts 
Archives,  but  the  original  petition  bearing  their  names  cannot  be 
found.    This  list  of  names  is  here  given  : 

James  Taylor  on  his  own  right. 

John  Osland  on  his  own  right. 

John  Mixer  on  his  own  right. 

John  Jones  on  his  own  right.  ^ 

John  Green  on  the  right  of  WiUiam  Green. 

John  Green  on  the  right  of  John  Green. 

Ephraim  Twitchell  on  the  right  of  Joseph  Twitchell. 

Isaac  Sheffield  on  the  right  of  William  Sheffield. 

Palmer  Golding  on  the  right  rf  Edward  Gap. 

James  Moor  on  the  right  of  George  Walker,  Jr. 

Ebenezer  Flagg  on  the  right  of  Richard  Flagg. 

Daniel  Moor  on  the  right  of  Jacob  Moor. 

Joshua  Kibby  on  the  right  of  Lodwick  Dowse. 

James  Taylor  on  the  right  of  Nicholas  Fox. 

Nathaniel  Morse  on  the  right  of  same. 

Charles  Richardson  on  the  right  of  Samuel  Ring. 

Thomas  Macke  (Macoy)  on  the  right  of  Timothy  S.  (illegible). 

Richard  Ward  on  the  right  of  Obadiah  Ward. 

Daniel  Brewer        on  the  right  of  same.  .     . ,,        .     ,  ^    ., 

Samuel  Green  •'  "    Joseph  Green.       ■  ;       -i     'i. 

Samuel  Stone  "  "     same.  ._._  ^-.i^ii^-  r  - 

Joseph  Stone  "  "     Samuel  Parkhurst.       .--,>• 


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SOCIETY   OF   COLONIAL   WARS. 


Mich  Stone 
John  Wesson 
Ebenezer  Twitchell 
Richcrd  Burt 
Daniel  Mackdafillin 
Joseph  Meriam 
F«ter  Grout 
Samuel  Graves 
Joseph  Trumbull 
Ebenezer  Rice 
John  Cogin 
Caleb  Bridges 
Abner  Newton 


on  the  right  of  Daniel  Stone. 

"  "  Samuel  Wesson. 

"  Edward  Twitchell. 

"  "  Thomas  Burt. 

"  Robert  Mackdafillin. 

"  Robert  Meriam. 

"  John  Cotter. 

"  same. 

"  Joseph  Trumbull. 

"  Ebenezer  Rice. 

"  John  Cogin. 

"  John  Bridges. 

"  John  Fay  claimed  by  Palmer  Golding. 


John  Fay  on  his  own  right  claimed  by  Palmer  Golding. 

Saiauel  I  yscom  on  the  right  of  his  father. 

Nathaniel  Dike  on  his  own  right  claimed  by  Palmjr  Golding. 

Daniel  Walker  on  his  own  right. 

John  Woodward  on  ii.e  right  of  Joseph  Moor. 


Daniel  Walker 
Ebenezer  Corey 
James  Patterson 
Amos  H'de 
Norman  Clark 
Ebenezer  Corey 
Peter  Br  nt 
Edward  Ward 
James  Patterson 
Noah  Parker 
Joseph  Bartlett 
John  Clark 
Samuel  Harris 
Jonathan  Parker 
Ezra  Holbrc-ok 


Thomas  Axuill. 
Thomas  Corey. 
Andrew  Patterson 
D?-  •d  Hide. 
Daniol  Mackey. 
Samuel  Page. 
HOjjestill  Bent. 
siSRie. 

Andrew  Patterson. 
Eleazer  Hide, 
same. 
John  Clark. 

same. 

John  Holbrook. 


A  true  copy  examined  by  me, 

JosiAH  Richardson, 

Clerk  of  the  Petitioners. 


ADDITIONAL   PETITIONERS. 

Nathaniel  Eames  on  the  right  of  Nathaniel  Eames. 

Nathaniel  Eames        "  "     John  Jaquith. 

Isaac  Baldwin  "  "     Abraham  Bryant. 

Joseph  Harrington    "  ^'     Lis  father  Joseph  Harrington. 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA    IN    1690. 


■ii 


David  Woods 
Isaac  Rice 

Moses  Bellows  " 

Samuel  Whitney  " 

James  Fowle  " 

Jonas  Bond  " 

Josiah  Fuller  " 
Thomas  Harrington    " 

Joshua  Fuller  " 

John  Temple  " 

Joseph  Noyes  " 
Nathaniel  Sparhawk  " 

David  Coney  " 
Samuel  Fuller 

Joshua  Fuller  " 

Joseph  Morse  " 


on  the  right  of 
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uncle Woods. 

"      Joseph  Rice. 


Joseph  Beach. 

James  Fowle. 

Jonas  Bond. 

Joseph  Win —  (illegible). 

Daniel  Harrington. 

Joseph  Winter. 

his  father  Richard  Temple. 

Moses  Noyes. 

Nathaniel  Sparhawk. 

Richard  Coney. 

Richard  Park. 

Nathaniel  Morse. 

Joseph  Morse.  ~v 


The  following  Frarningham  names  are  found  on  the  rolls  of 
the  Canada  Expedition  of  1690: 


John  Jones, 
Francis  Moquet, 
Daniel  Mack  Clafelin, 


Joseph  Trumbull, 
Caleb  Bridges, 
Daniel  Mixter, 


Daniel  Stone,  jun. 
Samuel  Wesson, 
Jacob  Gibbs. 


The  claimants  for  land  in  Sudbury,  Canada,  held  meetings  in 
Moquet's  Tavern,  Frarningham. 

SErrEMBER  y*  I4«>  1741 

The  Reconing  at  M'  Mokets  £•        s.        d. 

was  in  the  hole  2.       12.        o. 

ondly  yet  dee  to  sd  Moket  3.         6 

The  meeting  is  adjorned  to  Monday  y'  26"*  day  of  October 
n-jxt  at  Twelve  otb  clock  noon  sd  day 

The  adjornement  is  to  the  first  Tuesday  of  October  next  at 
Twelve  of  y*"  clock  noon  sd  day 
I.  15.  o 

Framingham,  Oct'  26,  1 741 
Rec^  of  Mr.  Noah  Parker  the  sum  of  three  pounds  four  shil- 
lings &  four  pence  being  the  expence  of  the  Canada  Petitioners 
&c. 

Pr  Fran<Ss  Moquet 


'If 


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M 


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SOCIETY   OF   COLONIAL  WARS. 

[Afass.  Archives,  Vol.  36,  p.  /JJ*.] 
HINGHAM    CANADA.      ANDREWSTOWN,  NEW   HINGHAM,    CHESTERFIELD, 

MASS. 
Hingham  soldiers,  ibgo. 


Capt.  Thomas  Andrews, 
John  Beals, 
Jonathan  Bur, 
Caleb  Beals, 
Sergent  Humphrey, 
Joseph  Joy,  sen. 
Henry  Greene, 
Edmund  Grosse, 
Enoch  Hobart, 
Jonathan  Mays, 
Preserved  Hall, 


Ebenezer  Humphrey, 

Nathaniel  Johnson, 

John  Lincoln,  a  drummer 

Josiah  Loring, 

Nathaniel  Lobden, 

Philip  Nicuaman 

William  Ness, 

Peter  Ripley, 

Thomas  Robbards,  (Roberts) 

Capt.  John  Smith. 


At  least  one  of  the  Hingham  men  was  killed  in  the  attack 
upon  Quebec,  while  another,  Isaac  Lasell,  died  a  few  days  after, 
probably  of  wounds,  while  Paul  Gilford,  Samuel  Judkins,  Jona- 
than Burr,  Daniel  Tower  and  Jonathan  Mays,  and  "  two  more 
of  the  town"  were  carried  off  by  the  small-pox,  which  broke 
out  in  the  fleet  and  added  its  misfortunes  to  the  disasters  of  the 
expedition. 

On  the  25  th  of  the  month  Captain  Andrews  succumbed  to 
the  dreaded  disease ;  the  succeeding  day  Lieutenant  Chubbuck 
died. 

ANDREWSTOWN. 

A  copy  of  Records  of  the  township  Granted  by  the  Court  to 
Capt.  Andrews  Company  Laying  West  of  Hatfield  &  Adjoyning 
thereto  

March  28,  1739  at  at  meeting  of  y*  Proprietors  of  y^  Town- 
ship of  Cap'.  Andrews  Company  at  Capt.  Adam  Gushing  at 
Weymouth  at  said  Meeting  Chose  Coin.  Thaxter  Moderator 
Chose  Thomas  Andrews  Clerk  &  Sworn  then  said  Meeting  was 
Adjorned  to  y*  23  day  of  May  Ensuing  to  meet  at  the  Same 
house  and  place  by  Vote  of  the  Said  Proprietors 

May  23,  1739  the  Afore  s*".  Propri".  Meet  S:  Voted  y'.  the 
rommitte  Ap'Dointed  by  y'  Gen'.  Court;  Viz  Coin.  Thaxter 
Coin  Gushing  and  Capt.  Adam  Gushing  be  Desired  in  behalf  of 


<v  il 


If 


(  71  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION   TO    CANADA   IN    1690 

the  Prop",  to  Defend  them  Against  y*  Pertetion  of  Narraganset 
Soulders  now  Pending  at  the  Gen'.  Court  about  their  Chouseing 
their  proportion  of  s".  township  or  any  Other  thing  that  may 
Advance  Against  y"  Interest  of  Said  Prop',  be  y*.  next  meeting 
and  the  said  Proprietors  by  Vote  Adjorned  s"  meeting  to  teues- 
day  26  Day  of  June  next  at  ten  Clock  fore  Noon  at  y*  place 
Afore  s^. 

June  26,  1739  the  Prop' meet  and  Adjorned  their  meeting 
by  Vote  the  third  Day  of  Septem'.  next  at  ten  Clock  at  this  house 
&  place  by  vote  of  y*.  Prop'.  Afor  s**. 

Septm'.  3,  1739  the  Above  S*.  Propr'.  meet  at  Capt.  Adam 
Cushing  In  Plymouth  &  Adjorn".  y'  Meeting  to  Wednesday  the 
25  day  of  this  mounth  at  ten  Clock  in  y*  fore  noone  to  his 
house  and  place  by  Vote  of  s**.  Prop". 

Septem'.  25,  1739  the  S^  Prop',  meet  at  Capt.  Adam  Cush- 
ing' and  Voted  y^  Capt.  Adam  Cushing  Capt.  William  Collens 
of  Lyn  to  be  a  Commety  to  Call  meeting  Also  Voted  to  Desolve 
y*.  meeting 

Augu'.  28,  1740  the  Prop',  meet  at  Capt  Adam  Cushing  In 
Plymouth,  Capt  Cushing  &  Capt  tory  in  nomination  for  a  Mod- 
erator Capt  Cushing  Chose  at  the  s*  meeting  Chose  Thomas 
Andrews  Treasurer  Chose  Capt.  WilUam  Collens  Capt  Caleb 
tory  Peter  Riply  j'.  a  Commety  to  Lay  Out  of  House  Lots  afo**. 
Prop'  Voted  to  alow  the  s"*.  Commety  twenty  Shillings  a  Day 
and  they  find  them  Selves  in  that  busness.  Voted  to  Leave  to 
the  Comm**.  y*  Nu;aber  of  acers  for  the  house  Lots  —  Voted  to 
Raise  three  pounds  on  a  Right  for  Defraying  the  charge  for 
Laying  Out  y*.  Lots  and  other  charges  Orrising  for  setling  y*  s**. 
township 

Voted  that  the  Comme'*.  to  Call  meetings  Draw  the  Money 
out  of  ihe  Treasurey 

Voted  that  the  Prop'.  Carry  in  their  Money  Into  the  Treas". 
by  15  Day  of  September  next. 

Decemb'  .11,  1740  at  a  Legal  meeting  of  y^  Prop',  at  Capt. 
Adam  Cushing  in  Plymouth  —  Voted  Capt  Cushing  Mo Jera''  — 
Voted  Notwithstanding  their  is  not  Land  left  in  the  first  Division 
for  y".  Rodes  &  Ways  for  y".  Prop'^  Use  it  is  to  be  Understood 
that  there  shall  be  a  Reserve  &  Nessesary  Rods  &:  Ways  for  y*. 


V  ■ 


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V 


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SOCIETY   OF   COLONIAL   \N     KS. 


fi 


s**.  Prop",  throw  any  of  their  lx)ts  the  Oners  of  s''.  \jois  through 
which  s''.  Way  or  Ways  may  be  Needfull  being  Mowed  a  F^quiv- 
elent  in  after  Divisions  for  s''.  Way  or  Ways,  &  also  for  a  Suta- 
ble  Place  for  a  meeting  house 

Voted  to  Except  of  Capt.  Lilloogs  Accompt  for  Laying  Out 
the  Ix)ts  in  the  I'roj)".  Township  West  of  Hatfield  Called  Andrews 
Town  Cai)t.  Lilloogs  Occom'.  for  Laying  Out  y".  I^ots  Ninety  two 
pounds  Nineteen  Shillings  &  Sixpence  92-19-6  pen 

The  Lots  that  Ware  Drawn  for 


The  ministree 

y*  minister 

y*  school 

The  Lots  that  Ware  Drawn  by  y*".  Prop" 


•  •    39  &  44 
.    .    23  &  18 

•  •     74  &  73 

Capt.  Andrews  Com- 


pany 

John  Porter" 72  &  71 

Jona"  Tarb   V    .    .          .     .  16^17 

Jos'".  Bredeu    .....  27  &  48 

John  Delleway      .     .     .     .  24  &  62 

Daniel  Jonson 31  &  37 

Sam".  Newhall      .     .     .     .  12  &  15 

William  Wormwod   .     .     .  10  &  1 1 

Zakry  Marsh 19  &  6i 

John  Driver 6  &    7 

Henry  Trivet 76  &  75 

John  Page 40  &  43 

Bartho'"y 38*45 

Josh.  Collens 35  &  28 

John  Newhall 22  &  21 


Vol.  115  —  pp.  62j-^S 


Capt.  Thomas  And". 
Liei't.  John  Chubbuck 
£ns°.  Jos'".  Joy. 
Preserved  Hall 
Jonat''.  Mays    . 
Humpiy.  Jonson 
Netha'.  Jonson 
John  Beal    .     . 
Caleb  Beal  .     . 
Jonat".  Burr     . 
Edmon  Greer  . 
Peter  Riply      . 
Sam'-.  Judkings 
Paul  Gilfird .     . 
Josiah  Loring  . 
John  Lincoln    . 
Thomas  Robards 
Eben"".  Humphey 
John  Ward  .    . 
Willi"".  Stowel . 
Daniel  tower    . 
Benj».  Stutton  . 
Natha".  Lobdel 
John  Simmons 
Coin,  thaxter    . 
Theoph*.  C'ushing 
Peter  Jacob 


4&5i 
80&  79 
36&47 

29&SS 
84&83 
85&86 

8&  9 
26  &  64 
32&33 

1&S4 
30&56 

20  &  49 

37*46 
5&50 

59&58 
2&S3 
82  &  81 
13  &  14 
66&65 
3S&63 
60&34 
68&67 
41  &  42 

70&  69 

78&77 

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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA    IN    1690. 
KOXBURY   OR   GARDNER'S   CANADA,   WARWICK,    MASS. 

Warwick  was  petitioned  for  by  Samuel  Newall  and  otiiers, 
and  it  was  first  called  the  Plantation  of  "  Roxbury,  or  Gardner's, 
Canada.''^ 

In  June,  1 736,  Samuel  Newall  and  the  officers  and  soldiers 
in  the  company  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Andrew  Gardner 
in  the  Canada  expedition  were  authorized  by  the  General  Court 
to  call  their  first  meeting  of  the  Proprietors. 

Said  meeting  was  held  at  the  house  of  James  Jarvis  in  Rox- 
bury,  Sept.  22,  1736.  Capt.  Robert  Sharp  was  chosen  moder- 
ator, and  William  Dudley,  Esq.,  chosen  Proprietors'  clerk. 

At  this  meeting  a  committee  consisting  of  Capt.  Robert 
Sharp,  Ensign  Samuel  Davis,  aiid  Mr.  Gershom  Davis  were 
chosen  to  procure  a  surveyor  and  lay  out  the  "  home  lots," 
each  lot  to  contain  not  less  than  fifty  acres,  nor  more  than 
sixty  acres ;  and  each  Proprietor  was  taxed  twenty-three  shillings 
to  defray  the  expense  of  laying  out  said  lots,  and  paying  the 
costs  incurred  in  petitioning  the  Court.  It  is  not  now  known  at 
what  time  these  home  lots  were  laid  out,  but  by  the  Proprietors' 
records,  on  the  tw  nty-fourth  of  October,  1737,  the  sixty  Pro- 
prietors, by  name,  drew  for  their  respective  lots,  and  paid 
twenty  shillings  each  to  defray  the  expense. 


A  List  of  Such  of  the  Descendants  of  the  Officers  &  Soldiers, 
under  the  Commands  of  Cap'.  Andrew  Gardner,  in  the  Canada 
Expedition  in  the  year  1690,  as  were  admitted  (by  the  Com- 
mittee of  the  General  Court)  Grantees  of  a  Tract  of  Land  of 
the  Contents  of  Six  Mile  Square  Adjoining  to  Northfield  in  the 
County  of  Hampshier    as  Followeth 


lii 


Samuel  Newel 
Thomas  Gardner 
Nathaniel  Craft 
Ebenezer  Craft 
Robert  Harris 
Benjamin  Bugbee 
Timothy  Whitney 
Samuel  [)erry 


Samuel  Davis 
Samuel  Thorp 
Samuel  Thorp 
Benjamin  White 
Gershom  Davis 
Timothy  Morscmr.rt 
Edward  Morrise 
Edward  Morrise 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL   WARS. 


Eleazer  Hammond 
Eleazer  Hammond 
Samuel  Grififin 
Benjamin  WilUon 
John  Seaver 
John  Seaver 
Joseph  Gardner 
Joseph  Stevens 
Caleb  Stedman 
John  Ruggles 
John  parker 
John  parker 
Daniel  Lawrence 
Josiah  Cheney 
James  Trissell 
Samuel  Wite 
John  Allen 
Thomas  Taft 
Thomas  Taft 
Ebenezer  Smith 
John  Maccantosh 
Robeit  Sharp 


Robert  Daniel 
John  Curtis 
Samuel  Clark 
Samuel  Sterns 
Samuel  Weld 
Samuel  Tucker 
Joseph  Daniel 
William  Heath 
Shubaal  Suaver 
Israel  Kersey 
John  Shephard 
Edward  White 
peter  Aspinwall 
Ebenezer  Case 
Huldah  Lamb 
Huldah  Lamb 
Huldah  Lamb 
Thomas  Hartshorne 
William  Sharp 
John  Gay 
John  Marscraft 
Samuel  peacock 


And  the  Said  Grantees,  Notwithstanding  the  Grant  proved  to 
be  Mountainous  and  very  Rockey,  were  at  great  Expence  laying 
out  all  their  first  and  Second  Division  Lots;  in  order  to  a 
Settlement ;  and  had  built  several  Houses  thereon,  but  the  war 
coming  on  Soon  after,  they  were  Discouraged  in  Making  any 
further  progress  at  that  time  and  as  Soon  as  the  Late  peace  Com- 
menced, they  renewed  their  resolution  of  Settling  their  Lots, 
and  Soon  found  that  the  time  of  the  War,  and  the  frequent 
burning  of  those  woods  had  so  defaced  the  Lines  of  their  Ix)ts, 
that  they  were  obliged  to  run  and  mark  them  out  a  new,  which 
they  did  the  Last  Summer,  in  order  to  Settle  them  as  soon  as 
possible  &  are  now  going  upon  them  —  and  have  Likewise 
given  great  Incouragement  in  the  public  prints,  to  any  (that  are 
not  Grantees)  that  will  Settle  with  them  y"  year  Currant,  As 
the  said  Cap'.  Gardners  Company  was  principally  raised  in  Rox- 
bury,  and  Brookline  j  and  all  Lost,  saving  y®  above  nairied 
Samuel  Newel,  and  as  the  Said  Grant  (tho.  it  may  be  made  a 
Settlement  with  great  Charge  &  Industry)  has  the  name  of  a 
very  poor  Township  of  Land,  the  Grantees  can  have  no  tempta- 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 


tion  to  Delay  Settling  with  Designs  to  Sell  out,  and  thereby 
make  advantage  to  them  selves ;  as  may  have  been  the  Case  of 
Some   other   Grantees  —  they  therefore    Humbly    rely  on    the 
favourable  Indulgance  of  the  Hon*".''  Court, 
Roxbury  March  31  :  1751 
By  order  of  y* 
said  Grantees 


1^ 


oseph  Heath  proprietory  Clerk 


WEVMOITTH    CANADA,    HUNTSTOWN,   ASHFIELD,    MASS. 

Captain  Ephraim  Hunt  (afterward  Major,  then  Colonel  in 
1706)  led  the  Weymouth  men  in  the  expedition. 

In  1736  his  heirs  and  others  received  a  grant  of  land  which 
was  called  Huntstown. 

2 1  June,  1 765,  it  was  incorporated  and  called  Ashfield  —  Mass. 


ASHFIELD    PROPRIETORS.       1739' 


John  Hunt, 
Thomas  White 
Nathaniel  Wales 
Benjn  Ludden 
Gideon  Tvirrel 
Richard  Foxon 
William  Crane 
Ebenezer  Hunt. 
Rev  Joseph  Belcher 
Jonathan  Webb 
Seth  Chapen 
John  Phillips 
John  Herrick 
Zechariah  Briggs 
Ebenezer  Hunt 
Job  Otis 

Jonathan  Dawse 
Heb'  Prat 
Rich*  Davenport 
Ezra  Whitman 
Solomon  Leonard 
James  Meares 
Joseph  Good 


Josiah  Owen 
Siim'l  Thayer 
Ephraim  Copelanu 
James  Hayward 
Sam'l  Gay 
Ebenezer  Staples 
Sam'l  Staples 
John  King 
Sam  1  Niles  jr 
James  Mears 
Moses  Pennima.i 
Joshua  Phillips 
W""  Linfield 
Ebenezer  Owen 
Sam'l  Darby 
Jonathan  Webb 
John  Das? 
Keith 
J.  French 
Atmos  Stutsou 
Joseph  Prake 
Thomas  Wolls 
Sam'l  Andiews 


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Thomas  Bolter 
Ephraim  Emerson 
Benj  Heal 
Barnabas  Daily 
John  Miller 


John  Bartlett 


John  White 
Benj  Stuart 
Joseph  Vickery 
Joseph  Lobdle 
Joseph  Milton 


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PLYMOUTH    COLONY. 


PLYMOUTH    RECORDS. 

1690,  May  20. 

Ordered  by  this  Court  and  the  authority  thereof,  that  the  e 
be  sixty  men  forthwith  raysed  in  the  colony  to  be  sent  by  water 
to  Albany  or  elsewhere  to  joyne  with  the  forces  of  New  Yorke, 
Massachusetts  or  Conecticot,  &c.,  for  the  defence  of  s**  places 
or  other  service  of  their  ma"**  against  the  comon  enemy ;  the 
men  to  be  raysed  in  each  town  according  to  the  proportions 
hereafter  set  down,  viz. : 


Flimouth, 

5 

Barnstable, 

5 

Bristol, 

3 

Duxburough, 

3 

Sandwich, 

4 

Taunton, 

5 

Scituate, 

6 

Yarmouth, 

4 

Rehoboth, 

4 

Marshfield, 

3 

Eastham, 

4 

Dartmouth, 

3 

Bridgwater, 

3 

Rochester, 

I 

Swansey, 

3 

Middleborough, 

I 

Monamoy, 

I 

Little  Compton, 

2 

Succoneasset, 

I 

Freetowne, 

I 

1690,  June  5. 

Ordered,  that  for  the  present  expidition  for  Canady  or  places 
adjacent,  that  the  souldiers  already  impressed  be  made  up,  the 
proportions  for  each  town  as  is  hereafter  set  down  : 


Amies. 

Men. 

Armes. 

M«tt. 

4        viz.  Plimouth, 

>3 

4 

Barnstable, 

12 

2        Duxborough, 

7 

3 

Sandwich, 

10 

2        Marshfield, 

7 

3 

Yarmouth, 

10 

5        Scituate, 

16 

2 

Eastham, 

10 

2        Bridgwater, 

8 

I 

Succonessett, 

2 

I         Middleborough, 

3 

I 

Manamoy, 

2 

I 

Rochester, 

2 

16 


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Armci. 

Men 

2 

Bristoll, 

6 

3 

Swansey, 

7 

2 

Little  Compton, 

4 

3 

Dartmouth, 

8 

4 

Taunton, 

»4 

3 

Rehoboth, 

10 

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Ordered,  by  this  Court,  that  in  this  present  expedition  there 
be  raysed  fifty  Indians,  22  in  the  county  of  Ilirnstable,  22  in 
the  county  of  Bristoll  and  six  in  the  county  of  Plimouth.  If 
such  do  not  present  as  are  to  the  sattisfaction  of  one  or  more  of 
the  magistrates  of  the  county,  or  the  comander  of  the  com[)  iny, 
that  then  by  warrant  from  a  magistrate  such  be  impressed  as  are 
most  fitt.  And  that  Plimouth  county  take  care  to  provide  armes 
and  other  necessaries  for  eighteene  men,  Barnstable  county  f«jr 
fifteene  men  and  Bristoll  county  for  seventeene  men. 

The  officers  and  souldiers  now  to  be  raysed  to  march  at  such 
time  and  rendevouse  at  such  places  as  they  shall  receive  orders 
from  one  or  both  of  the  comisioners  of  the  colony,  one  or  both 
of  which  are  hereby  iiapowered  to  grant  warrants  to  impress 
vessels,  men,  armes,  amunition  or  any  other  thing  needed,  and 
can  be  procured  within  the  colony  for  this  present  ixpcilition. 

Ordered,  that  if  the  officers  now  appointed  for  this  expedition 
either  do  not  accept  or  are  prevented  by  the  hand  of  God,  or 
any  should  otherwise  be  wanting,  that  the  Govern'  with  the  con- 
sent of  two  magistrates  appoint  and  comissionate  others,  as 
there  may  be  need. 

Capt.  Joseph  Silvester,  Mr.  John  Goram,  chosen  for  captains 
for  the  present  expedition. 

Jabiz  Snow,  Sam'  Gallop,  leiftenants  ;  Preserved  Abel  or  John 
Butterworth,  Sam'  Lucos,  ensignes. 

Samuel  Gallop,  appointed  to  be  a  lieutenant,  was  promoted 
to  and  served  as  a  captain  in  the  expedition  of  1690. 

Capt.  Nathaniel  Thomas,  Lieut.  Isaac  Little,  are  appointed  a 
comittee  to  take  &  adjust  the  accounts  of  what  the  colony  is 
indebted  to  particular  (persons)  for  money  lent  <jr  other  debts 
of  the  colony  —  to  y"  making  a  rate  for  the  speedy  —  the  same. 


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Resolved  and  agreed  on  by  the  Generall  Court,  that  1350 
pounds  be  forthwith  raised  p"'  rate  upon  all  the  rateable  inhabi- 
tants of  the  colony  for  the  payments  of  all  known  debts  of  the 
colony  relating  to  the  present  war,  and  otherways  excepting  the 
charges  about  armes  for  y*  expedition  to  Canada. 

The  one  half  of  s"*  sum  to  be  paid  in  money,  the  other  half 
in  wheat  at  4  s.  p'  bushel,  barley  at  2  s.,  rye  at  2  s.  9  d.,  Indic^n 
come  at  2  s.  6  d.  p'  br.shell,  porke  at  45  shillings  p'  bairell, 
biefe  at  28  shillings  p'  barrell,  butter  in  firkin  or  pott  at  6  d.  p"^ 
pound,  in  less  quantity  by  pound,  5  d. ;  all  s^  grain  &  provi- 
sions to  be  good  &  merchantable. 

The  Court  allow  to  Leiv'  Little  for  his  trouble  &  charge  in 
receiving  and  delivering  the  loan  money  for  Canada  expedition, 
&c.,  the  sum  of  40  shillings  to  be  paid  out  of  this  rate. 

This  Court  order  that  the  Goven',  Assistant?,  Secretary,  and 
Chief  Marshall  shall  have  one  third  part  of  what  is  allowed  and 
due  to  each  of  them  paid  in  money. 

Barnabas  Lothrop  Esq',  Mr.  Stephen  Skeff  and  Capt,  William 
Bass^tt : 

Are  appointed  a  comittee  for  the  county  of  Barnstable. 
John  Gushing  Esq',  Leivt.  Isaac  Little  and  Sam'  Sprague : 
Are  appointed  a  comittee  for  the  county  of  Plimouth. 
Daniel  Smith  Esq',  Cap'.  Thomas  Leonard  and  Sam'  Gardiner : 
Are  appointed  a  comittee  for  the  county  of  Bristol. 
The  s*  comittees  of  each  county  are  appointed  to  meet  at 
their  severall  coun*y  towns  upon  the'  third  Tuesday  of  this 
instant  November,  then  and  there  to  receive  and  prepare  the 
accounts  of  the  severall  persons  to  whome  the  colony  is  in- 
debted ;  which  being  performed  the  whole  comittees,  viz.,  all 
the  persons  above  named,  are  to  meet  at  Plimouth  on  the  first 
Tuesday  of  December  next,   who   are   hereby  impowered   to 
adjust  and  allow  all  such  accounts  of  souldiers  and  others  as  to 
them  shall  seeme  just  and  reasonable,  and  to  order  bills  to  the 
severall  county  Treasurers  for  payment  of  y"  same  to  such  as  y' 
colony  is  indebted  unto. 

And  the  said  county  Treasurers  are  hereby  impowered  to 
require  &  receive  the  said  severall  sums  that  shall  be  levyed  & 
raysed  upon  the  towns  in  their  respective  counties,  of  the  sev- 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

erall  constables  who  shall  colect  and  gather  the  same  .nH 
Sir"  to  ,.e  ac,uittances\  othe/^^es  tTs^ 

^^"^"lir^^a:^^-^^^^^^^^ 

as  aboves"*  ""pioyea  m  the  colonies  concerns 

«.c  afores'  .„„  of  .350  pounds  i7as  foCh  ""'  '""* 


Plimouth, 

Scituate, 

Marshfield, 

Duxbury, 

Bridgewater, 

Middleborough, 


84 

163 

67 

56 

57 
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451      07      00 

Bristol], 

Taunton, 

Rehoboth, 

Dartmouth, 

Swanscy, 

Little  Compton, 

Freetowne, 


Barnstable, 

Yarmouth, 

Sandwich, 

Eastham, 

Rochester, 

Monamoy, 

Succonessett, 


112 

104 

93 
93 
'3 

18 


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10 
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15 
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82 

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09 

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452    04    09 


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446    08    00 


Bjr  the  councill  of  war  at  Plimouth  Octob'  V  o*      « 
Thomas  Tomson  of  Middlebon,„gh,  beins  p'  order  „f?^'       ?  ' 
part  of  the  town  councill  of  s"  MiHrfl.l!^     \  *'  "^'"^ 

service  of  ,l>eir  ma-  a  cLll  !"^'7  '"'P'"'^'^  f"  'he 
service  is  sentenced  .0  pavafine  „f?  '''"""«  '°  "'""  '"« 
the  said  to™  councirfor  tte  useof  s^"  "^""""k^  '"  '"°'''^  "> 
till  .he  same  be  paid  with  ts  &c  "'  ^  ™P'^™«' 

James  Soul  of  Middleborouffh  for  fh«  c 
abovesaid.  eoorough,  for  the  same,  is  sentenced  as 

/orHai-rttindiitb:;:^  -r;  r,  -■  -- 

councU,  Of  s- Sandwici,  impres«d  for  "the^lel^e '  of  S 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL   WARS. 

ma""  against  y*  Indian  enemy  eastward,  &  in  regard  of  his  ill 
deportment  after  pressed,  &  not  appearing  at  the  time  &  place 
appointed,  is  sentenced  to  pay  a  fine  of  4  pound  money.  But 
in  regard  it  appears  to  this  councill  that  he  was  not  well  when 
the  souldiers  were  to  march,  the  councill  remit  half  s**  fine, 
ordering  that  he  pay  to  the  town  councill  for  y"  use  of  said  town 
y'  sum  of  40s.  in  money,  &  fees,  &c. 


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The  Probate  Records  of  Plymouth  County  give  the  following 
men  who  died  in  the  Expedition  : 


Benjamin  Wood  alias  Atwood  of 

Middleboro 
Moses  Simmons  of  Scituate 
Sergt.  Samuel  Bryant,  of  Scituate 
Samuel  Dwelley  of  Scituate 
Thomas  Hyland  of  Scituate 
Arthur  Low  of  Marshfield. 
Matthew  Stitson  of  Scituate. 
Nathaniel  Parker  of  Scituate 
Lazarus  Turner  of  Scituate 
Capt  Joseph  Sylvester  of  Scituate 
Ensign  John  3tetson  of  Scituate 


Robert  Finney  of  Plymouth. 
William  Eaton  of  Plymouth. 
Joseph  Knap  of  Plymouth. 
Zachariah  Soule  of  Duxbury. 
Joseph  Pryor  of  Duxbury. 
mark  Lothrop  of  tiidgewater. 
Benjamin  Washburn  of  Bridgewater. 
James  Howard  of  Bridgewater. 
Lt.  John  Wetherell  of  Scituate 
James  Glass  of  Duxbury 
James  Snow  of  Bridgewater. 


The  following  is  a  roll  of  Capt.  Samuel  Gallup's  company  in 
the  Expedition : 

Commissioned  Officers. 

Samuel  Gallop,  Captain.  Preserved  Abel,  Lieutenant. 

Solomon  Smith,  Ensign. 

Non- Commissioned  Officers. 

Samuel  Sabin  and  William  Hack,  Sergeants. 
John  Querk  and  Nicholas  Peck,  Corporals. 


Ichabod  Peck 
William  Robinson 
Daniel  Carpenter 
Jacob  Carpenter 


Private  Soldiers. 

Nicholas  Hall 
John  Smith 
John  Bagley 
Joseph  Jones 


PhUip  AUen  ■ 
WUUam  Ellis  > 
John  Cupowo 
John  Thomas 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 


Daniel  Sheperson 
Noah  Sabin 
John  Onnsby 
John  vVall 
Samuel  Butterworth 
Henry  Thomas 
John  Daviss 
Samuel  Luther 
Morris  Ronam 
Ungass  Callee 
Zachariah  Curtis 
Richard  Tuells, 
Thomas  Tuells 
Thomas  Crossman 
John  Bright 


Daniel  Fisher 
John  Eddy 
Samuel  HoUoway 
Danrel  Phillips 
Allies  Garden 
John  Haskins 
William  Ripley 
Thomas  Traintor 
Carlo  Caree 
Philip  Brazeel 
John  Price 
Wilham  Hillyerd 
Jonah  Meredith 
Thomas  Hart 
William  Newland ' 
1  Dartmouth  men. 


Sam.  Turusk 
Dickens  


Simon  Tom 
Joshua  Thomas 
James  Trask 
James  Pumshot 
Obed  Wickum 

Obediah 

Benjamin  Jacob 
Abel  Wasunks 
Sam  Hunter 
Joseph  Jeckewot 
Sam  Umpatune 

Job 

Jeremiah  Jones 


Commissioned,  3;  Non-Commission ed,  4;  Private  Soldiers,  57;  Total,  64. 

Quite  a  number  of  private  soldiers  above  enumerated  were 
Indians,  as  wiii  be  seen  by  the  list  of  grantees. 

Daniel  Carpenter,  a  soldier  in  this  company,  in  a  letter 
directed  to  his  father,  William  Carpenter,  of  Rehoboth,  said 
that  the  company  remained  at  Plymouth  eight  days  waiting  for 
the  vessels  that  were  to  convey  the  soldiers,  and  upon  the  27  th 
(probably  of  June),  1690,  sailed  out  of  Plymouth  in  five  shallops 
about  noon,  and  arrived  at  Nantasket  before  night,  where  they 
expected  to  remain  until  the  30th  instant. 

The  soldiers  Traintor  and  Caree  were  from  Freetown. 

The  foregoing  list  of  Gallup's  Company  was  written  on  the 
back  of  this  letter. 

I  Dec  1736 

That  Daniel  Carpenter  authorized  to  call  a  meeting  of  the 
grantees  of  Gallup  Canada 


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gallup's    CANADA,    GUILFORD,   VT.  ;     ITS   EQUIVALENT,   SAVOY,   MASS. 

[^Lttter  cf  Henry  W.  Tafi,  Esq.,  Lenox,  Mass.,  in  iS^g."] 

There  came  recently  into  my  hands  the  Proprietors'  Records 

of  "  Bullock's  Grant,"  now  mostly  embraced  within  the  limits 

of  the  town  of  Savoy  in  this  county.    This  territory  appears 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL   WARS. 

to  have  been  granted,  in  June,  177 1,  by  the  Legislature  to  the 
heirs  and  grantees  of  Capt.  Samuel  Gallup  and  others,  "  who 
served  in  tho  expedition  ag'  Canada  in  1690,"  and  in  compen- 
sation for  a  former  grant  which  was  "  lost  by  running  the  line  of 
the  State  of  New  Hampshire."  The  names  of  Capt.  Gallup's 
company  are  given  in  this  record,  and  I  send  the  list,  though  I 
am  not  sure  that  it  is  not  otherwise  accessible.  I  think  they 
were  all  from  the  Old  Colony,  and  engaged  in  the  land  expedi- 
tion by  way  of  Albany,  &c.,  and  not  under  command  of  Sir 
William  Phipps. 


Lisl  0/ 

Capt.  Samuel  Gallup 
Lt.  Preserved  Abell 
Ens.  Solomon  Smith 
M'  Dan'  Carpenter 
Samuel  Sabin 
Danuel  Philips 
Joseph  Jones 
Samuel  Luther 
Noah  Sabin 
William  Robinson 
John  Ormsbee 
Ichabod  Peck 
Nicholas  Hall 
Daniel  Shepardson 
John  Baggley 
Thomas  Crossman 
John  Haskins 
Jacob  Carpenter 
William  Ellis 
John  Smith 


6a//.  Sam*  Gallup's  Cotnp»,  i6go. 


John  Eddy 
Nicholas  Peck 
Daniel  Fisher 
Richard  Tuells 
Thomas  TuellsJ 
Sam'  Buterworth 
William  Hoch (or  Hack) 
Benjamin  Wilson 
Francis  Willson 
Josiah  Wheeler 
Philip  Squire 
Elisha  Tapper 
William  Ripley 
John  Thurber 
Thomas  Hart 
Richard  Bullock 
Alexander  Maxcy 
Joseph  Glover 
Benjamin  Freeman 
Robert  Calley 


James  Baggley 
Samuel  Thome 
George  Studman 
Adam  Disdale 
Samuel  Johnson 
William  Sutton 
John  Barrows 
Nath'  Whiting 
John  Twogood 
John  Twogood  Jr. 
John  Pierce 
Benj*  Marrion 
William  Hillyeard 
Samuel  Halloway 
Philip  Allen 
Thomas  Richardson 
Samuel  Warkman 
Samuel  Salter  (or  Salter) 
Philip  Tillinghast 
Robert  Kilton  (60) 


The  following  memorandum  of  Dartmouth  soldiers  appears 
on  the  back  of  an  order  to  Capt.  Thomas  Leonard  "  to  press  a 
men  &  a  Drum  for  Canada  "  : 

William  Newland  Thomas  Hart 

V/iLUAM  Ellis  Phillii'  Ai.len 

(Order) 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 
TAUNTON   MILITARY    RECORDS. 

Impress  Warrant,  June  24th,  1690  : 
To  John  Thresher  of  Taunton  in  Bristol  County  or  his  deputy, 

Ihese  are  m  the.r  Majesties'  names  to  require  you  to  imnress 
for  their  Majesties'  serviss  against  the  common  enemy^      ' 

JohnBagley,         Thomas  Richmond,  Peter  Pits  ir  M.u.  t    j 

Richard  Brigs 
and  for  each  of  them  a  sufficient  gun,  and  ponder  hom    or 

S"of\„tne«:  '"''"•  "'  '°  "'  -^'  "  ^--  "A^^ 
Given  under  our  hands  in  Taunton,  June  21,  1690 

o.tr.x     Sf:?s;.    ;t^-r' 

The  Town  Council. 

Return, -I,  John  Thrasher,  do  hereby  make  Daniel  Phillip, 

m,  deputy  by  v.rtue  of  the  within  written,  to  presse  any  of  the 

men  w,thm  appo.nted  by  the  Town  Council  to  be  pressed,  and 

also  to  press  a  gun  for  himself,  and  also  for  any  others  of  the 

""trbrt  ::r  r  "-• "-' "°' '"  -^-  ^  -  -^  ^  -» 

Signium  of  John  x  Thrasher 

June  24th,  1690.  '""'"''• 

The  price  of  Soldiers  Armes  as  they  were  pressed  for  the 
Expedition  of  1690—  i'         "  «"r  tne 

Nicholas  halls  gun ^     s.      d. 

his  powder  horn  and  shot  pouch °^  '°  '° 

Joseph  Jones  his  gun 00  01  06 

John  Hoskins  gun  of  Richard  Brigs 01  10  00 

Daniel  Fishers  gun  of  Joseph  Leonard o^  05  00 

Sam  hoUoways  gun  of  Jonathan  Brigs                01  05  00 

Thomas  Richmonds [    [ °'  '°  00 

Daniel  Phillips  gun  of  Joseph  Dean 

Serj  Hacks  gun  of  John  Hodges               01  05  00 

*              01  02  00 


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SOCIETY   OF   COLONIAL   WARS. 


John  Eddys  gun  of  John  Macomber  .  .  . 
Miles  Jurden  gun  of  John  Briant  .... 
John  Bagleys  gun  of  Joseph  Dean   .... 

John  Smiths  gun 

Richard  Williams  gun 

A  belt  to  Will  Hack 

Nicholas  halls  horn  to  John  Bagley .... 
James  Leonard,  senior,  hatchet  to  John  Bagley 
Joseph  Willis  his  gun  to  John  Smith  jr.  .  . 
Uriah  Leonards  gun  to  his  Indian  .... 
Nath  Williams  his  gun  to  Ed  Richmond  .  . 
Thon:as  Williams  his  gun  to  George  Rock 

Thos.  Gilbert  gun i     08 

John  Whites  Gun i     10 

Thomas  Dean  Gun 

The  Town's  Musket 

Edward  Bobbets  Gun, 
Mr.  Nath  Shoves  Gun, 

&  Cutlass 

James  Walker,  Junior,  Cutlau    .    . 


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James  BeU 
Moses  Knap 
an  Indian 


Will  Hack 
James  Bell 


Clothing  Account  Taunton  Soldiers,  Canada  Expedition,  1690  : 

Joseph  Hall's  Account : 

The  town  councell  of  Taunton  Debt  to  me  Joseph  Hall  for 

making  of  clothing  and  knapsacks  for  ye  Souldiers  upon  ye 

Canada  Expedition, 

Imprimis, 

£  ».  d. 

To  John  Edy,  for  making  two  wascots  &  a  snapsack  .     .     .     .  o  6  o 

To  John  Bagley,  a  wascot  and  snapsack o  4  o 

To  Joseph  Jones,  one  wascot o  2  6 

To  Nicholas  Hall,  one  wascot  and  snapsack o  4  o 

To  Donald  Phillips,  one  wascote  and  snapsack ^  ^  o 

To  Samuel  holloway,  one  snapsack o  i  6 

To  Miles  Jordan,  one  wascote o  8  6 

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This  is  a  true  a  Comb, 

Pd  Mr.  Joseph  Hall, 

Taunton  ye  ixth  November  1690. 


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THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

Robert  Crossmans  account  of  what  he  did  for  ye  Souldi 
went  to  Canada,  1690. 

Mending  Jos  Joneses,  Gun 

to  Sam'  holow",  gun 

to  Donoll  fishers,  gun 

to  Nic"  hals,  gun, 

to  Jona  Brigs,  gun  for  Samuel  holoway,   . 
to  Constable  Thrasher,  2  hats,      .... 
to  Richard  Brigs  gun,  for  John  Hoskins,  . 
to  Tho.  Gilberts  gun,  for  Thomas  Richmond, 
to  a  hatchet,  and  mending  Donall  Phillips  gun, 
to  Miles  Jurden  a  hatchet,  and  mending  gun, 

to  Will  Ripley  a  hatchet, 

to  mending  Don  Phillips  gun  again,     .     . 

to  Richard  Marshalls  gun 

to  Will  Hack's  gun ' 

to  Isaac  Deans  gun  for  John  Bayley,    .     . 
to  mending  Jon"  hoskins  gun  &  in  room  of  mine  y».  Ripley 
had  for  ic'  before  it  was  mended 


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make  oath  too  if  needed. 
Taunton,  Dec.  i,  1690. 


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Taunton  credit  for  Money  advanced  for  Canada  Expedition,  1690  : 

Thomas  Leonard  money 12  08  00 

Paid  to  Robert  Crossmen  for  y  drum  5s.  and  in  all  other  pay  .  01  ic  00 

by  a  home  to  Sam  Squabscon 00  00  08 

By  Manchester  to  Jo  Patuxin 00  00  oc 

"  half  y*  red  cloth  to  ditto 00  05  08 

By  thrid  an  Manchester  &  7i  yds  ^ 

red  cloth  to  Benj.  ALohon        / oi  08  05 

Peter  Nunuit  (•')  6  yds-* 

red  cloth  and  thrid  2d.  / 01  02  08 

John  Abimilick  ('«)  by  linin  for  a  snapsack  and  Manchester    .  00  01  02 

To  Capt.  Leonard : 

You  are  Required  in  their  majesties  names  forthwith  to  take 
care  to  send  down  your  two  men  f  are  wanting  &  if  y^  souldiers 
are  raarcht  from  Plimouth  you  must  take  care  y'  they  with  all 


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speed  be  sent  to  Nantasket  you  are  alike  Required  to  Impress  a 
good  Drum  &  if  you  can  a  drumer  allsoe  &  send  along  with  y* 
souldiers  hereof  fail  not  &  for  which  this  shall  be  your  warrant, 
dated  at  Plimouth  i8  July  1690 

John  Walley  per  order  of  y*  Council  of  war 

(7'Aomas  Leonard's  Papers^ 


GORHAM    CANADA,    DUMBARTON,    N.H. 

Province  of  the     ) 
Massachusetts  Bay  ) 

To  His  Excellency  the  Govern',  the  Hon"'*.  Council  &  House 

of  Representatives  in  General  Court  Assembled  at  Boston 

June  12"'.  1735 

The  Petition  of  Shubal  Goreham  Representative  of  the  Town 

of  Barnstable  for  himself  and  the  Persons  Whose  Names  are 

hereto   Under  Written   being   in   the   Expedition   to  Canada 

Anno  1690  or  the  Descendants  of  those  who  are  dec",  uuder 

the  Command  of  Cap*.  Jn".  Goreham.     Sheweth 

That  the  said  Cap*.  Goreham  with  a  Company  under  the 
Command  was  actually  in  the  Service  of  the  Crown  at  the  Time 
when  Sir  William  Phipps  went  to  Canada  in  the  year  1690  in 
Order  to  Reduce  that  Country  to  the  Obedience  of  the  Crown 
of  Great  Britain  and  altho'  he  failed  yet  those  who  went  on  said 
Expedition  Suffered  great  hardships  and  Your  Excellency  and 
Hon"  haveing  heretofore  Rewarded  those  who  have  Served 
their  Country  He  therefore  most  humbly  Prays  that  the  Heirs 
of  the  said  Cap'.  Goreham  &  such  others  as  were  in  said  Expe- 
dition under  his  Command  that  are  now  living  &  the  Heirs  of 
such  as  are  since  dec''.  May  Obtain  a  Grant  of  a  Tract  of  Land 
of  Six  Mile  square  for  a  Township  to  be  settled  in  such  Way 
and  Manner  as  may  b';  Consistant  with  Your  Excellency  & 
Hon".  Pleasure  &  in  Duty  Bound  shall  Pray  &c 

Shubal  Goreham 

Cap'.  Jn".  Goreham  Nath".  Lothrop  Rob'.  C}  ghorn 

Lieu'.  Jabez  Snow  Clerk  James  Pain  Tim".  Fuller  alive 

Ens'".  James  Claghorn  Jn".  Lewis  alive  Jn*.  Grey 

Serg'.  Constant  Freeman  Sam".  Allen  Elisha  Hedge 
alive 


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Serg*.  James  Lewis  alive 
Drum'.  John  Holbrook 
Corp*.  Caleb  Williamson 

alive 
Corpo.  Barnabas  Wixum 

alive 
James  Maker 
Jn".  Andrus  alive 
Abraham  Remick  alive 
Tho'.  Snow  alive 
Jos:  Higgins 
Joshua  Higgins  alive 
Nath"  Atkins 
Cornelius  Jones 
Daniel  Cole  alive 
Elisha  Tupper 
Edmond  Freeman  alive 
George  Field 


James  Hamblin  alive 
Tho»  Parker 
Jon*.  Linnet 


Sam«.  Rider 
Jos.  Sturgis  alive 
Dan".  Hambleton  alive 


James  Cookoonc  alive       Michail  Phillips 


Stephen  Presberry  alive 
Tho*.  Hambleton 
Bacheldor  Wingalive 
Sam^.  Larrance 
Jn".  Robinson 
Jn".  Rowly  alive 
Sam".  Godfrey  alive 
Benj*.  Wood 
Rob'.  Phinney 
James  Stewart 
Joseph  Burg 
Joseph  Cane 


Jabez  Elamus 
Jos:  Daniel 
Bonj™.  Bates 
W™.  Bootson 
Elimas  Shautam 
Ziniro  Robins 
James  Robins 
Jer:  Samson 
Tim°.  Toby 
Tn°.  James 
Edward  Phinney 
James  Mark 


In  the  House  of  Representatives  June  y^  18"".  1735  In 
answer  to  the  Petition  of  Shubal  Gorehara  &  others  who  Were 
in  ^  Expedition  to  Cannada  in  the  Year  1690  or  y*  Descend- 
ants of  Such  as  were  lost  or  are  since  Dead 

Voted  that  the  Prayer  of  ihe  Petition  be  granted  &  that 
Shubal  Gore  ham  Esq'.  &  M'.  Sam".  Sturgis  jun','  together  with 
such  as  shall  by  joined  by  the  Hon*^'.  Board  be  a  Committee  at 
the  Charge  of  the  Governm'.  To  lay  out  a  Township  of  the 
Contents  of  six  Miles  square  North  of  &  adjoing  to  the  Town- 
ship Reported  en  in  favour  of  sundry  Petitioners  of  Salem  and 
Marblehead.  And  that  they  Return  a  Plat  thereof  to  this 
Court  within  Twelve  Months  for  Confirmation  And  for  the  More 
Effectual  bringing  forward  the  Settlen'.  of  the  said  New  Town 
Ordered  that  the  said  Town  be  laid  out  into  Sixty  three  Equal 
shares  one  of  n'  to  be  for  the  first  Settled  Minister  one  fer  the 
Ministry  &  one  for  the  School  &  that  on  Each  of  the  other 
Sixty  Shares  the  Petitioners  do  within  three  years  from  the  Coi:- 
firmation  of  the  Plan  have  settled  one  Good  Family  who  shall 
have  a  House  Built  on  his  Home  Lot  of  Eighteen  Feet  Square 
&  Seven  feet  stud  at  the  Least  &  finished,  That  Each  Right  or 
Grant  have  Six  Acres  of  Land  brought  to  and  ploughed  or 
brought  to  English   Grass  &   fitted   for  Mowing.     That  they 


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Settle  a  learned  Orthodox  Minister  &  Build  &  Finish  a  Con- 
venient Meeting  House  for  the  Publick  Worship  of  God :  Pro- 
vided that  in  Case  any  of  the  Lots  or  Rights  are  not  duly 
Settled  in  all  Regards  as  aforesaid  then  such  Lott  with  the 
Rights  thereof  to  Revert  to  and  be  at  the  Disposition  of  the 
Province. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence 

J  QUINCV  Sp^'. 

In  Council  June  19*.  1735 
Read  Sz  Concurred  &  Jeremiah  Mouton  Esq*,  is  joined  in  the 
Affair 

T:  Mason  Dep*'  Sec'y. 

Dec'.  29  Consented  to 

J  Belcher 
A  True  Copy  Examined 

^  Simon  Frost  Dep  Sec". 

Its  equivalent  township  was  Otisfield,  Maine,  granted  June, 
1777-  

SYLVESTER     CANADA,    RICHMOND,   N.H. 
[Mass.  Court  Records,  June  20,  and  House  yournal,  yune  /g,  //J/.] 
A  Petition  of  Major  James  Warren,  for  himself  and  others, 
that  Served  in  the  Expedition  against  Canada  in  the  Year  1690, 
Under  Joseph  Sylvester,  or  are  the  Representatives  of  such  of 
he  said  Soldiers  as  £ire  deceased ;  Praying  for  a  Tract  of  the 
Province  Lands  of  the  Contents  of  Six  Miles  Square  for  a  Town- 
ship to  Settle  on,  in  consideration  of  the  great  hardships  they 
or  their  Ancestors  endured  in  the  said  Expedition  — 


Petition  of  Committee  for  laying  out  Richmond,  ^736. 
[A/ass.  Archives,   Vol.  loj,  p.  147.'] 
To   His  Excele^  Jon*  Belcher  Esq'  Gov'  &  Command'  in 
Chief  &c     To  y*  Hon'"  Council  — 

'.  he  Memorial  &  Petition  of  Sam"  Thaxter  In  the  Name  &  by 
or  er  of  the  Comitte  for  Laying  out  a  Canada  Township  so 
Called  Granted  to  the  officers  &  Souldiars  belonging  to  the 


(  89  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION   TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

Company  under  y^  Comand  of  Cap'  Joseph  Silvester  Hutnblv 
Sheweth  ^ 

That  By  order  of  the  Gen"  Court  passed  in  their  Sessions 
i^ay  1735,  Fifty  pounds  was  allowed  to  be  Drawn  out  of  the 
Publick  Treasury  &  paid  to  the  Respective  Comittes  for  y^  Lay- 
ing out  &c  the  Canady  Township  so  called  —  That  y"  Memori- 
alists have  Expended  a  Considerable  sum  in  y«  Service  for 
Laying  the  Township  Granted  to  s''  Silvester  &  Company  & 
Desire  yo'  Excele^  &  Hon"  will  order  a  warr'  to  y"  Treasurer 
for  paym'  of  Fifty  pounds  allow'd  as  afores"  to  y''  s"  Comitte  — 
&  yo'  Memorialist  shall  pray  &c  — 

June  30,  1736  Sam^Thaxt£r 

June  y  j^  j^j6. 
Then  finished  the  Laying  out  a  Tract  of  Land  on  the  Easterly 
Side   of  Arlington  Granted  by  the  Great  and  General  Court 
held  at  Boston  In  June  1735  _  for  a  Plantation  or  Township  of 
the   Contents   of  Six  Miles  Square  and  is  Granted    to   Capt 
Joseph  Silvister  and  his  Company  and  is  bounded  thus  begin- 
iiing  at  a  piller  of  Stones  Erected  for  the  South  Easterly  corner 
of  Arhngton  from  thence  runing  East  Six  miles  partly  on  a 
Town  Ship  lately  Laid  out  and  partly  on  province  Land  —  to  a 
Hemlock  tree  marked  with  J.  S.  from  thence  Running  North 
Six  miles  &  fifty  Six  Perches  to  a  maple  tree  marked  with  J.  S 
—  from  thence  West   44  degres  North  Seven   hundred   and 
thirteen  Perch  to  an  heap  of  Stones  on  the  Lower  ashewelot  line 
and  from  thence  South  forty  three  deg.  West  on  the  ashewelot 
line  one  thousand  one  hundred  and  ninety  three  perch  to  a 
piller  of  Stones  then  West  Eighteen  deg.  North  Six  hundred  & 
forty  Perch  to  a  piller  of  stones  then  Running  South  on  Arling- 
ton Ime  five  miles  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  one  Rods  to  a 
piLer  of  Stones   the  first  mentioned   Bounds  there's  allowed 
about  one  Rod  in  thirty  for  uneven  land  and  Swag  of  Chain 
also  there  is  allowed  one  hundred  acres  for  a  farm  all  ready 
Granted  to  Coll.  Josiah  Willard  with  five  hundred  acres  for 
ponds  — 

^  Josiah  Willaju)  Surveyor 
a  scale  of  310  perch  to  an  inch 


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[Afass,  Court  Records  and  House  Journal,  Jan.  /8,  /7J6-7.] 

In  the  House  of  Represent'  Whereas  a  Grant  of  a  Township 
of  the  Contents  of  Six  Miles  Square  was  made  by  this  Court  at 
their  Session  in  June  1735  to  the  officers  &  Soldiers  in  the 
Canada  Expedition  Under  the  Command  of  Cap*  Joseph  Syl- 
vester and  to  the  heirs  legal  Represent'  &  descendants  of  such 
of  them  as  are  deceased,  But  for  as  much  as  a  Sufficient  Number 
of  said  Grantees  do  not  appear  to  give  Bonds  for  fulfilling  the 
Conditions  Agreeable  to  the  directions  of  the  said  Grant 

Therefore  ordered  that  the  Com'**  Appointed  to  Admit 
Settlers  in  said  Township  be  Impowered  to  Admit  any  others 
that  were  Either  officers  &  Soldiers  in  any  other  Company  in 
the  said  Canada  Expedition,  or  the  heirs  Legal  Represent'  or 
Descendants  of  any  of  them  who  are  Since  deceased,  who  have 
not  been  Admitted  Grantees  into  other  Towns ;  So  as  to  make 
the  Number  of  Sixty  Settlers  in  all  j  and  that  upon  their  giving 
Bond  as  aforesaid,  they  each  of  them  be  entitled  to  a  Sixty 
third  part  of  said  Township,  provided  they  perform  the  Con- 
ditions of  said  Grant,  Unless  a  Sufficient  Number  of  the  said 
Company  so  as  to  make  up  in  the  whole  of  the  said  officers  and 
Soldiers  or  of  the  heirs  legal  Represent'  or  Descendants  of  such 
of  them  as  are  since  dec'ed  appear  to  make  their  Claim  to  said 
Grant  before  the  Com***  appointed  to  admit  Grantees  at  or 
before  the  Eighteenth  day  of  March  next  and  that  the  said 
Com'**  give  publick  Notice  Seasonably  of  this  order — 

In  Council  Read  &  Concurr'd  — 

Consented  to 

J  Belcher 

\^Masi.  Court  Records,  June  t8,  and  House  yournal,  June  16,  /yj?.} 
In  the  House  of  Represent'  Ordered  That  James  Warren 
Esq'  be  and  hereby  is  fully  Authorized  and  Impowred  to  As- 
semble and  for  the  first  Meeting  to  Convene  the  Grantees  of  a 
Township  lately  Granted  by  this  Court  to  the  officers  and 
Soldiers  in  the  Canada  Expedition  Anno  1690,  Under  the 
Command  of  Cap'  Joseph  Silvester  dec'ed  their  heirs  legal 
Represent'  £:c  in  some  Convenient  place  in  the  Town  of 
Plymouth  when  and  where  the  Grantees  under  the  Direction  of 


(  91   ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

the  said  James  Warren  Esq'  are  to  make  Choice  of  a  proper 
Clerk  and  to  pass  such  votes  and  Rules  &  orders  for  bringing 
on  the  Settlement  as  may  be  Agreeable  to  the  Conditions  of  the 
Grant  and  also  to  Agree  Upon  some  Regular  Methods  for  to 
call  proprietors  Meetings  for  the  future  — 

In  Council  Read  &  Concurr'd 

Consented  to 

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SYLVXSTER  CANADA,  RICHMOND,  N.H.  j  ITS  EQUIVALENT,  TURNER,  ME. 

pROViNCB  OF  Massachusetts  Bay, 

In  the  House  of  Representatives, 

June  25,  1765. 

On  the  petition  of  James  Warren  and  Joseph  Joslyn  Esqrs.  and 
Mr.  Charles  Turner,  Agents  for  the  proprietors  of  a  Township 
granted  to  Capt.  Joseph  Sylvester  and  Company  who  served  in 
the  expedition  against  Canada  in  1690,  which  township  was 
known  by  the  name  of  Sylvester-Canada,  and  that  the  whole  of 
the  said  Township  on  running  the  line  between  this  Province 
and  New  Hampshire,  fell  with  the  government  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

Resolved,  that  in  lieu  thereof  there  be  granted  to  the  Peti- 
tioners &  the  Legal  Representatives  or  assigns  of  the  said  Joseph 
Sylvester  and  Company  a  Township  of  the  Contents  of  seven 
miles  square  in  the  unappropriated  Lands  belonging  to  this 
Province.  Provided  that  the  Grantees  within  six  years  settle 
Thirty  Families  in  said  Town,  built  a  house  for  publick  worship, 
and  settle  a  learned  Protestant  Minister,  and  lay  out  one  sixty- 
fourth  part  of  said  town  for  the  use  of  the  first  settled  Minister, 
and  one  other  sixty- fourth  part  for  the  Ministry,  and  one  other 
sixty-fourth  part  for  a  Grammar  School,  and  one  sixty-fourth 
part  for  the  use  of  Harvard  College. 

Provided,  also  the  said  Township  be  laid  out  in  such  a  part 
of  the  unappropriated  lands  belonging  to  this  Province  adjoin- 
ing to  some  former  Grants  to  the  eastward  of  Saco  River,  and 
that  they  return  a  Plan  thereof  into  the  Secretary's  office  within 
twelve  months  from  this  day,  for  confirmation. 


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In  Council,  June  25th,  1765.     Read  and  Concurred.     Con- 
sented to  by  the  Governor. 

True  Copy  from  the  Records  of  the  General  Court.     Vol.  ao, 
Page  71. 

Attest.  John  Avery,  jun.,  Secretary. 

The  number  of  the  original  proprietors  was  sixty,  and  the 
names  were  as  follows : 


Joseph  Atkinson, 
Samuel  Bryant, 
Robert  Buck, 
Nathaniel  Bartlett, 
John  Delano, 
Samuel  Owelly, 
Samuel  Doughty, 
William  Eaton, 
John  Field, 
Benjamin  Gannett, 
Paul  Guilford, 
James  Glass, 
Joseph  Goold, 
Samuel  Hunt, 
James  Howard, 
Thomas  Hiland, 
Isaac  Hammer, 
James  Harris, 
Nathaniel  Harlow, 
Nathaniel  Holmes, 


Eleazer  Jackson, 
John  Joyce, 
Cornelius  Jones, 
John  Kent, 
Joseph  Knap, 
John  Kingman, 
John  Lambert, 
Arthur  Low, 
Mark  Lothrop, 
Gershom  Marble, 
Thomas  Morton, 
Samuel  Pittifer, 
Joseph  Prior, 
Robert  Pheney, 
Nathaniel  Parker, 
Elnathan  Palmer, 
Peter  Roach, 
John  Reccords, 
Capt.  Jos.  Silvester, 
Edward  Standley, 


Edward  Smith, 
Thom&s  Snell, 
Thomas  Soper, 
Jc;in  Silvester, 
Benjamin  Sutten, 
Joseph  Studley, 
Mathew  Stetson, 
Samuel  Sprague, 
Joseph  Shelley, 
James  Snow, 
Moses  Simmons, 
John  Stetson, 
Stephen  Totman, 
Lazarus  Turner, 
Thomas  Wild, 
Jabez  Warren, 
Return  White, 
Ebenezar  White, 
Benony  Wolly, 
John  WethereL 


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IWLOCATED    GRANTS    OF    CANADA    TOWNSHIPS    IN    NEW    HAMPSHIRE. 

The  Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  in  the  early  part  of 
the  last  century  included  a  territory  bordering  the  present 
boundary  line  of  Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire  on  the 
north. 

The  towns  included  in  this  territory  were  subjected  to  the 
claims  of  the  rival  proprietors  under  the  title  from  Mason,  the 
first  patentee,  and  under  the  grants  of  the  Massachusetts 
General  Court  this  has  been  shown  in  some  instances  of  the 
Canada  townships  previously  mentioned. 


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(  93  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

u«try  line  east  of  the  Connecticut  r  ver.     The  dotteH  i,n« 
show    ,he  boundary  line  established  which  left  but  thre    of  the 

wick  (3)    ,n  the  present  State  of  Massachusetts  •         ^   ^'      ^' 
I.     Dorchester  Canada,  Ashburnham,  Mass. 
Ipswich  Canada,  Wine'  endon,  Mass. 
Roxbury  or  Gardner's  Canada,  Warwick,  Mass. 
Sylvester  Canada,  Richmond,  N.H 
Haywood  or  Rand's  Canada,  Peterborough,  N.H 
S>alem  Canada,  Lyndeboro',  N.H. 
Cambridge  Canada,  Lanestown,  New  Boston 
Beverly  Canada,  Halestown,  Weare,  N  H 
Rowley  Canada,  Rindge,  N.H. 
Gorham  Canada,  Dumbarton,  N.H 
Whitman  or  Marlborough  Canada,  Todstown,  Henniker, 

Gallup's  Canada,  Guilford,  Vt 

Newbury  Canada,  Bakerstown,  Stevenstown,  Salisbury, 

Newton  Canada,  Alstead,  N.H. 


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HAYWOOD  OR   RAND's   CANADA,   PETERBOROUGH,    N.H. 
[Mass.  House  Journal,  May  27,  77^6.] 
AFetitionof  6aw«^/,%ya,^^^,  Christopher  Page   and  sun 
^Vf  others,  praying  for  a  Grant  of  a  Tract  of  Lfnd  on  wk' 
SKies  S^he,en.Ri.er,  as  entred  the  x^f  zt  ^1?  p^^,' 
and  referred  to  this  Session.     Read  and  referred  to  the  next' 
Session  of  this  Court  for  further  Consideration. 

IMass.  House  Journal,  June  ^3,  ,73^,^ 

pratiiLTt^heirT^'^p^'^^^^^  ''''  '™^^'^-^  Associates, 
praymg  that  their  former  Petition  for  a  Grant  of  T  an,i  f«, 

^r^wnship  at  Souhegan  may  be  revived  forThels^  'Zl 
Read  and  Ordered,  That  the  Petition  lye  on  the  Table. 


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SOCIETY   OF   COLONIAL   WARS. 

[Mass.  House  Journal,  Dec,  S,  /7J2,^ 
A  Petition  of  Samuel  Haywood  and  Thomas  Cutler  for  them- 
selves and  sundry  others,  praying  for  a  Grant  of  a  Township  at 
a  place  called  Souhegan  agreeable  to  their  former  Petitions, 
Read  and  referred  to  the  next  May  Session  for  further  Con- 
sideration. 

{^Jan.  15, 17J7-8,  changed  to  "  in  some  of  the  unappropriated 
Lands  of  the  Province"^ 


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\_Mass.  House  Journal,  Dec.  3, 17 3S-^ 

On  the  Memorial  of  William  Rand  and  others,  Canada 
Soldiers  Anno  1690,  as  entred  the  25th  uk.,  which  was  read 
and  accepted,  and  Votedy  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be 
granted,  and  that  .  .  .  together  with  such  as  shall  be 
joined  by  the  honourable  Board,  be  a  Committee  at  the  charge 
of  the  Government  to  lay  out  a  Township  of  the  contents  of 
six  miles  square  West  of  the  NarragansetfYfynn  called  number 
Three,  viz.  leaving  one  Town  of  six  miles  square  and  adjoining 
thereto,  and  that  they  return  a  Plat  thereof  to  this  Court  within 
twelve  months  for  confirmation ;  and  for  the  more  effectual 
bringing  forward  the  Settlement  of  the  said  Town,  Ordered, 
That  the  said  Town  be  laid  out  into  sixty-three  equal  shares, 
one  of  which  to  be  for  the  first  settled  Minister,  one  for  the 
Ministry,  and  one  for  the  School,  and  that  on  each  of  the  other 
sixty  shares  the  Petitioners  do  within  three  years  from  the  con- 
firmation of  the  Plan  have  settled  one  good  family,  who  shall 
have  an  House  built  on  his  home  lot  of  eighteen  feet  square  and 
seven  feet  stud  at  the  least  and  finished,  that  each  Right  or 
Grant  have  six  acres  of  Land  bro't  to  and  plowed  or  brought 
to  english  Grass  and  fitted  for  mowing,  that  they  settle  a  learned 
orthodox  Minister,  and  build  and  finish  a  convenient  Meeting 
House  for  the  publick  Worship  of  GOD,  and  that  each  Settler 
give  bond  of  Twenty  Pounds  to  the  Province  Treasurer  for  ful- 
filling the  Conditions  of  the  Grant ;  provided  that  in  Case  any 
of  the  Lots  or  Rights  be  not  duly  settled  in  all  regards  as  afore- 
said, then  such  Lot  or  Right  to  revert  to  and  be  at  the  disposi- 
tion of  the  Province.     Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 


(  95  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN    1690. 

Timothy  Wheeler  servant  to  John  Smedly  dyed  at  Capere- 
toon  [Cape  Breton]  Nov  i  1693.  Samuel  Bateman  son  of 
Thomas  died  there  Nov  i  1690. 

{Concord,  Mass.,  Records.) 


CAMBRIDGU   CANADA,    LANESTOWN,    NEW   BOSTON,   N.H. 

[^Mass.  House  yournal,  yune  j,  1734.^ 

A  Petition  of  Capt.  Nathanael  Bowman,  and  others  in  the 
publick  Service  in  the  Canada  Expedition  under  the  command 
of  the  late  Sir  William  Phipps,  Knt.  praying  for  a  Grant  of 
Land,  as  entred  the  20M,  of  yune  1732,  and  \tth.  oi  June 
last,  and  referred.  Read  and  committed  to  the  Committee 
appomted  to  consider  of  the  Petition  of  Abraham  Tilton  of 
Ipswich,  and  others,  and  report  what  may  be  proper  to  be  done 
thereon. 


[Mass.  House  Journal,  Dec.  j,  /7JJ'.J 

On  the  Petition  of  Capt.  Nathanael  Bowman,  and  others, 
Canada  Officers  and  Soldiers  ^n»&  1690,  as  entred  the  5M.  of 
y^une  1734,  which  was  read  and  accepted,  and  thereupon  the 
House  came  into  a  Vote  for  a  Grant  of  a  Township  to  the  Peti- 
tioners of  six  miles  square,  lying  North  of  the  Narragansett 
Town  called  number  Three,  on  the  same  Conditions  of  Settle- 
ment as  the  aforesaid  Grants  were  made.  Sent  up  for  Concur- 
rence. 


Joseph  Hastings  was  wounded  and  lost  an  eye  in  1690.  In 
the  same  year,  among  those  who  were  engaged  in  the  unfortu- 
nate expedition  against  Canada,  are  found  the  names  of  John 
Andrew,  William  Blanchard,  Nathaniel  Bowman,  Matthew  Bridge, 
Daniel  Champney,  James  Cutler,  Edward  Green,  Stephen  Hast- 
ings, Joseph  Hicks,  John  Manning,  John  Pierce,  Joseph  Smith, 
Nathaniel  Sparhawk,  John  Squire,  Thomas  Stacey,  John  Sted- 
man. 

{Paige's  Cambridge.) 


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NEWrON    CANADA,    AI^EAD,    N.H.  ;    I'l-S    KQUIVALKNT,    PARIS,    MAINE. 

At  a  Great  and  General  Court  held  in  Boston  on  the  i4vh 
day  of  November,  1736,  the  following  vote  passed  the  two 
Houses  and  was  consented  to  by  the  Governor : 

Voted,  that  Capt.  Samuel  Jacksoi!  -e  and  hereby  is  fully  authorized  and 
empowered  to  assemble  and  conven*.  the  grantees  or  proprietors  of  the 
township  No.  4,  lying  i  1  the  line  of  towns  between  the  rivers  of  Connecticut 
and  Merrimac,  to  assemble  in  such  place  as  they  shall  be  notified  and 
warned  to  convene  and  assemble  at,  in  order  to  choose  a  moderator  and  clerk, 
and  a  committee  to  allot  and  divide  their  lands,  and  to  dispose  of  the  same 
and  to  pass  such  votes  and  orders  as  by  them  may  be  thought  conducive  to 
the  speedy  fulfillment  of  the  conditions  of  their  grants,  and  also  to  agree 
upon  methods  for  calling  of  meetings  fur  the  future.  Provided  none  of 
their  votes  concerning  the  dividing  or  disposing  of  their  lands  that  shall  be 
passed  while  they  are  under  the  direction  of  the  committee  of  this  .-curt 
■hall  be  offered  l)efore  they  are  allowed  of  by  said  committee. 

The  proprietors  held  their  first  meeting  pursuant  to  a  call  of 
Mr.  Jackson,  and  proceeded  to  organize  by  the  choice  of  Capt. 
Samuel  Jackson  as  moderator,  and  Joseph  Mason,  Esq.,  clerk. 
It  would  seem  that  some  of  the  grantees  were  minors,  for  it  was 
voted  that  such  of  the  proprietors  as  were  under  age,  if  present, 
should  be  allowed  to  act  and  vote  in  the  proprietors'  meetings. 
It  was  also  declared  a.  the  sense  of  the  meeting  that  the  rep- 
resentative of  any  of  the  absent  proprietors  should  be  permit- 
ted to  act  and  vote  in  their  behalf. 

It  was  voted  that  future  meetings  should  be  called  by  posting 
notices  in  Watertown  and  Newton  fourteen  days  before  the 
time  appointed  therein  for  holding  the  same.  It  was  also  voted 
that  a  meeting  of  the  proprietors  should  be  called  at  any  time, 
on  application,  in  writing,  to  the  committee  of  ten  or  more  of 
the  proprietors. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  proprietors  was  holden  at  the  house 
of  John  Brown,  of  Watertown,  on  Monday,  the  fourth  day  of 
July,  1737,  and  Capt.  Samuel  Jackson  was  chosen  moderator. 

The  next  meeting  was  holden  at  the  dwelling-house  of  Widow 
Mary  Learned,  in  Watertown,  on  Tuesday,  the  eighth  day  of 
February,  A.D.  1739.  I*  was  voted,  first,  that  "  the  charge  of 
the  meeting  be  borne  by  the  whole  society,"  and,  second,  that 


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(  97  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA  IN   1690. 

"  there  shall  be  no  lickers  brought  to  the  society  that  they  shall 
be  charged  for,  but  what  is  ordered  by  the  committee."  It  was 
voted  "  to  chose  a  committee  to  find  out  a  convenient  way  to 
our  townships,  and  work  out  the  same." 

The  next  meeting  of  the  proprietors  was  held  nearly  thirty 
years  after  the  one  just  mentioned.  There  is  no  eviden».e 
going  to  show  that  the  house  provided  for  at  the  last  meeting 
was  ever  built,  or  that  any  of  the  proprietors  who  drew  house- 
lots  ever  occupied  or  even  saw  them.  There  had  long  been 
a  sharp  contest  between  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  and  the 
proprietors  of  the  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  respecting  the 
line  between  the  two  provinces.  Between  1760  and  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  war  uf  the  Revolution,  many  grants  of  land  had 
been  made  in  Maine  and  several  in  Oxford  county.  Fryeburg 
was  granted  Mr.  Joseph  Frye  for  services  in  the  French  and 
Indian  wars ;  Bethel  to  the  descendants  of  those  of  Sudbury  and 
other  towns  who  had  served  in  the  expedition  against  Canada 
in  1690;  Livermore  to  those  of  Watertown,  Waltham,  and  the 
neighboring  towns,  who,  either  by  themselves  or  their  ancestors, 
had  taken  a  part  in  the  reduction  of  Port  Royal ;  Turner  and 
Jay  to  the  descendants  of"  Canada"  soldiers,  and  Rumford  to 
Concord,  N.H.,  to  compensate  those  of  her  grantees  who  had 
suffered  loss  by  the  settlement  of  the  northern  boundary  of 
Massachusetts,  which  had  left  that  town  in  New  Hamphire. 
The  grantees  of  Livermore  had  been  petitioners  for  land  in 
i735>  ^^^  ^^^  received  a  grant  of  township  No.  2,  on  the  east 
side  of  and  adjoining  to  the  Connecticut  river  in  the  same 
tract  where  No.  4,  granted  to  Capt.  Samuel  Jackson  and  others, 
was  situated,  and  which  proved  on  the  settlement  of  the 
boundary  to  be  within  the  limits  of  New  Hampshire.  The 
Livermore  grantees  based  their  claim  for  a  renewal  of  their 
grant  upon  the  fact  that  their  "  No.  2  had  been  thrown  into 
New  Hampshire  by  an  adjustment  of  the  boundary  lines." 

The  changed  conditions  of  things,  and  the  general  movei.  ent 
for  eastern  land  grants,  stimulated  the  grantees  of  No.  4  on 
Connecticut  river  to  move  for  an  adjustment  of  their  claims — a 
preliminary  step  to  which  was  the  reorganization  of  their  com- 
pany.   These  grantees  were  mostly  from  Watertown,  Waltham, 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL   WARS. 


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and  Newton,  towns  from  which  hailed  most  of  the  grant(;ca  of 
Livermore  and  Jay.  The  grantees  of  Bethel  were  also  largely 
from  Newton.  These  two  towns,  Watertown  ard  Newton, 
formed  the  rallying-points  for  several  Massi'.chusetts  towns, 
Marlboro',  Shrewsbury,  and  Gr3ton  being  notable  among  the 
number. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of  township  No.  4, 
•'  lying  between  the  rivers  Connecticut  and  Merrimac,"  after  an 
interval  cf  nearly  thirty  years,  was  held  at  the  house  of  Mr. 
Nathaniel  Coolidge,  intikeeper  in  Watertown,  on  the  26th  day 
of  December,  1769.  Several  of  the  original  proprietors  had 
deceased,  and  their  rights  were  represented  by  heirs  or  assigns, 
while  others  had  disposed  of  their  claims,  so  that  only  twenty- 
nine  of  the  original  claimants  petitioned  for  a  renewal  of  the 
grant.  At  this  meeiing  Joshua  Fuller  was  elected  moderator, 
and  Nehemiah  Mason,  clerk.  Capt.  Joshua  Fuller,  Capt. 
William  Coolidge,  and  Ebenezer  Brown  were  constituted  a  com- 
mittee to  draft  a  petition  to  the  General  Court  for  a  new  grant 
of  land  in  lieu  of  the  one  tixey  had  lost. 

From  the  record  of  the  proprietors'  meetings  it  appears  that 
this  committee  went  in  company  and  acted  :n  conjunction  with 
a  committee  of  the  grantees  of  Phipps  Canada,  with  the  under- 
standing that  the  two  grants  should  be  situated  side  by  side, 
and  that  the  expenses  should  be  divided  between  the  two  com- 
miitees.  But  aitei  the  townships  had  been  located  and 
bounded,  some  disagreement  arose  the  nature  of  which  is  not 
explained,  and  the  committee  on  the  part  of  the  proprietors  of 
No.  4  assumed  the  whole  of  the  expense  of  the  survey,  and  the 
committee  of  the  Phipps  Canada  proprietors  went  to  the  great 
Androscoggin,  and  surveyed  a  township  north  of  Livermore,  ter- 
ritory which  now  comprises  the  towns  of  Jay  and  Canton. 


l^Massatkusetts  Archives,   Voi.  ii8,  pp.  410-41^.'^ 

15  Mch.,  1770 

That  9cme  of  your  Petitioners  and  the  Predecessors  of  the  others  Obtained 
a  Grant  from  the  Great  &  General  Court  of  a  Township  of  Land  Several 
years  Since,  Which  was  then  Laidout  between  the  Rivers  of  Connecticut 
and  Merrimack  in  the  Line  of  Towns. 


(  99  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 


on  the  Right  of  (-apt.  Samuel  Jackson 
John  Spring 


Samuel  Jackson 
Jonathan  Williams ;-. 
Thomas  Greenwood 
Ebenezer  Stearns 
Oakes  Angier 
Isaac  Jackson 
Thaddeus  Trowbridg* 
Jonathan  Williams 
Thomas  Quinier 
StepLen  Harris 
David  Sanger 
Kphraim  Borridge 
Peter  Durrell 
Samuel  Shattuck 
Nathaniel  Smith 
William  Coolidge 
Amos  Livermore 
Josiah  Brown 
Josiah  Goddard 
William  Park 
William  Park 
Ebenezer  Brown 
Jonas  Coolidge  ' 

Nathaniel  Spring 
Ctristopher  Grant  junr  ' 
Samuel  Fuller  « 

Jonathan  Learned         " 
WilMam  Dana 
Jonathan  Learned 
Seth  Stone  « 

Nathaniel  Stoae  «« 

Josiah  Mixer 
Daniel  Robbins 
James  Hay  «« 

Joseph  Coob'dge 
Josiah  Fuller 
Nehemiah  Mason  <« 

Daniel  Bond  •• 

Abraham  Whitney  « 
Nathaniel  Coolidge  " 
Elisha  Learned  « 

Samuel  Randall 


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on  right  of  Isaac  Jackson 

"     "  William  Trowbridge 
"      "     "  William  WiUiams 

"  Thomas  Harris 
"      "     "  David  Sanger 
"      "     "  John  Burridge 


"  01j\^er  Livermore 
'     "  William  Brown 

"  Richard  Park 

"  Jonas  Coolidge 

"  Christopher  Grant 

"  Isaac  Fuller 

"  Ebenezer  Goddard 

"  Jonathan  Bemis 
"  Moses  Hastings 

"  Richard  Coolidge 


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Joseph  Mason 
Daniel  Bond 
John  Whitney 
Thadeus  Coolidge 
David  Learned 


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Ezekiel  Whitney 
John  Stowel 
Benjamin  Bond 
Janiez  Dix 
George  Harrington 
George  Harrington  junr 
Josiah  Bisco  " 

Edmund  Barnard  " 

Samuel  Hide  " 

William  Coolidge  jun    " 
William  Coolidse  " 

Thomas  Frost 
Thadeus  Trowbridge    " 
Samuel  Jackson  " 

David  Coolidge 
David  Livermore 
Nathaniel  Stone. 


on  right  of  David  Whitney 


"  Thomas  Bisco 
"  Samuel  Stowel 
"  Richard  King 
"  Joseph  Allen 
"  John  Coolidge 

"  Caleb  Trowbridge 
"  Edward  Jackson 


Names  of  the  Petitioners  were  entered  agreeable  to  a  Vote  at  the  meeting 
on  12  Mch  1770. 

3  Apr  I771 

The  Memorial  of  Samuel  Whittemore,  Joshua  Fuller,  John  Brown, 
Thomas  Parker  and  Alexander  Shepard. 

Humbly  Sheweth 

That  your  Memorialists  on  the  is"*  Day  of  March  1770  Preferred  a 
Petition  to  the  Great  &  General  Court  then  Sitting,  humbly  Praying  that  a 
Township  of  Land  might  be  Granted  to  them  and  their  Associates  Sub- 
scribers to  said  Petition,  as  a  Gratuity  or  Reward  for  the  hard  Service  and 
Suffering  of  their  Predecessors  in  the  Expedition  to  Canada  in  the  Year 
1690. 


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PHIPS   CANADA,    JAV   AND   CANTON,    MAINE. 

In  1739,  ^*  is  said,  one  John  Phips,  of  Wrentham,  Mass.,  said 
to  have  been  of  the  family  of  Sir  William  Phips,  petitioned  for  a 
grant  on  account  of  service  in  the  expedition.  The  following 
seems  to  refer  to  David,  son  of  Spencer  Phips,  of  Cambrid^^e, 
Mass. : 

In  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Petition  of  David  Phips,  Esq"", 
and  others  praying  for  a  Township  in  Consideration  of  their  Ancestors  being 
in  the  Expedition  against  Canada  in  the  Year  1690  Have  attended  that 
Service  and  find  that  the  Petitioners  are  the  Descendants  and  Le^al  Repre- 
sentatives of  Sundry  persons  in  the  Expedition  aforesaid  and  that  they  nor 
their  Ancestors  have  not  as  yet  rec'i^  any  Grant  for  the  Hardship  and  Bur- 
dens Sustained  by  their  Ancestors  aforesaid  in  said  Expedition  as  all  Others 


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THE  EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 

have  done  who  have  Regularly  Applied  to  the  General  Court  for  the  same. 
Therefore  are  of  the  Opinion  that  the  following  Resolve  Pass. 

In  the  House  of  Representatives  June  11,  1771  Resolved  that  there  be 
granted  to  David  Phips  Esqr.  and  others  mentioned  in  the  Petition  a  Town- 
ship of  the  Contents  of  Six  Miles  &  Three  Quarters  Square  to  be  laid  out 
adjoining  tc  some  former  Grant  in  the  unappropriated  Lands  in  this 
Province  to  the  Eastward  of  Saco  River  provided  the  Grantees  within  Seven 
Years  Settle  Eighty  Families  in  Said  Township  Build  a  House  for  the  public 
Worsiiip  of  God  and  Settle  a  Learned  Minister,  one  84^  part  for  the  Min- 
istry one  84**>  part  for  the  Use  of  a  School  in  s*  Township  and  one  84""  part 
for  the  use  of  Harvard  College  forever  provided  also  that  they  return  a  Plan 
theieof  Taken  by  a  Surveyor  and  Chairmen  under  Oath  into  this  Court 
within  Twftlve  months 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence  &c 

At  a  meeting  of  the  proprietors  (or  grantees)  of  a  township  of  land 
granted  by  the  Great  and  General  Court,  on  the  nth  day  of  June,  1771,  to 
David  Phipps,  Esq.,  and  others,  at  their  meeting  on  Tuesday,  the  19th  day  of 
November,  1 771,  at  ths  house  of  Ebenezer  Steadman  in  Cambridge,  it  was 
v^>ted  that  this  Proprietary  relinquish  all  their  right  in  tue  two  townships  of 
land  that  were  laid  out  by  a  committee  of  this  Proprietary,  in  conjunction 
with  a  committee  of  the  No.  4  Proprietary  (so  called^,  at  Little  Amariscoggin 
river,  to  the  said  No.  4  proprietors,  provided  they  pay  all  the  charges  that 
have  arisen  in  viewing  and  laying  out  said  township,  except  the  charges  of 
Messrs.  Abijah  Brown  and  Israel  Whittemore  for  their  services  and  expenses 
in  said  service,  and  except  six  days  and  a  half  of  Capt.  Kimball. 


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WHITMAN   OR   MARLBOROUGH   CANADA,    HENNIKER. 
EQUIVALENT,    WATERFORD,   ME. 

This  town  was  Number  6  in  the  line  of  towns  from  Merri- 
mack to  Connecticut  river,  granted  by  Massachusetts  Jan.  -6, 
1735-6.  As  some  of  the  grantees  came  from  Marlborough, 
Mass.,  it  was  sometimes  called  New  Marlborough  or  Marl- 
borough Town. 

[Petition  of  Proprietors  of  Henniker  for  Equivalent  Grant,  1774.] 
[Mass.  Archives,  Vol.  118,  p.  7S7.] 
Province  of  the    ^  To  his  Excellency  Thomas  Hutchinson  Esq'  Captain 
Massachusetts- Bay  1  General  &  Commander  in  chief  In  &  over  s<*  Province 
To  the  Honourable  His  majesties  Council  &  To  the  Honourable  House  of 
Representatives  in  generd  Court  assembled  Januar*  26th  1774 

The  Petition  of  the  Subscriber  in  behalf  of  ourselves  and  others  Grantees 
of  the  Township  Number  Six  iu  the  Line  of  Towns  humbly  Sheweth 


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That  the  Great  &  General  Court  of  thr  Province  at  their  Session  AD  1735 
Granted  a  Township  of  the  Contents  of  Six  Miles  square  being  Number  Six 
In  the  Line  of  Towns  between  Connecticutt  &  Merrimack  Rivers  that  the 
Grantees  were  at  very  considerable  Expence  in  clearing  Roads  Building 
Mills  &c  in  said  Township,  that  by  the  late  running  of  the  Line  Between 
this  Government  &  the  Government  of  New  Hampshire  the  said  Township 
was  taken  into  the  said  Government  of  New  Hampshire;  &  your  Pet"  and 
their  associates  have  lost  their  whole  Interest  therein  together  with  the 
money  Expended  in  bringing  forward  the  Settlement  of  said  Township 

Your  Petitioners  therefore  most  humbly  request  that  your  Excellency  & 
Honours  would  in  your  known  wisdom  &  Justice  Grant  to  your  Petitioner  & 
the  other  Grantees  and  Proprietors  of  s*'  Township  Number  Sue  in  Lieu 
thereof  a  Township  in  some  of  the  unappropriated  Land  in  the  Eastward 
Part  or  this  Province  or  otherwise  Relive  your  Petitioner  aft  your  Excellency 
&  Hon'  In  your  Wisdom  shall  think  proper  &  your  Petitioner  as  in  Duty 
bound  shall  ever  pray 

John  Gardner 
Stephen  Maynard 
Seth  Rice 

[In  answer  to  this  petition,  the  General  Court  granted  the  petitioners  the 
township  of  Waterford,  Me.,  Feb.  24,  1774.] 


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WOBURN. 
[Mass.  Archives^  Vol,  a6,  pp.  346-247."] 

A  True  list  of  those  Persons  Who  have  a  Just  Claim  (either 
in  Wobum  or  the  next  adjacent  Towns)  to  the  Bounty  of  the 
General  Court  by  being  (either  personally  or  by  their  Ancestors) 
in  the  Caiiada  Expedition  Anno  1690  — 

Taken  in  Wobum  February  19*''.  1738  by  virtue  of  an  order 
of  the  S**  Gen'  Court  bearing  date  December  22^  last  past,  viz'. 

1  Joseph  Read  of  Wobum  Personally  present  in  s"  Expedition 

Attested  upon  Oath  by  Zachariah  Converse  of  s*  Wobum. 

2  Zachariah  Converse  of  Wobum  personally  present  in  s"* 

Expedition  attested  by  Joseph  Read  of  Wobum  upon 
Oath. 

3  John  Dean  in  right  of  his  Brother  William  Dean  both  of 

Wobum.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 

4  Timothy  Wynn  in  right  of  his  Father  Joseph  Wynn  both 

of  Wobum.     Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 

5  Edward  Wynn  in  right  of  his  Father  Increase  Wynn  both 

of  Wobum.    Attested  by  Joseph]|Read. 


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Samuel  Wymat.  in  right  of  his  Father  Samuel  Wyman  both 

of  Woburn.     Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
Nathan  Wyman  in  right  of  his  Father  John  Wyman  both  of 

Woburn    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
Jabez  Wyman  in  right  of  his  Father  John  Wyman  Jun'  both 

of  Woburn.     Attested  by  Joseph  Read 
Jonathan  Poole  of  Woburn  in  right  of  His  Father  Jonathan 

Poole  of  Reading.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
Jacob  Wright  in  right  of  his  Father  Joseph  Wright  both  of 

Woburn.     Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
Mousell  Wright  in  right  of  his  Father  Joseph  Wright  Jun' 

both  of  Woburn.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
Jabez  Temple  of  Wilmington  in  right  of  his  Father  William 

lemple  of  Reading.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
John  Pierce  in  right  of  his  Brother  Thomas  Pierce  both  of 

Woburn.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
John  Fowle  Jun'  in  right  of  his  Grandfather  James  Fowle 

both  of  Woburn.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
John  RusseU  in  right  of  his  Father  John  Russell  both  of 

Woburn.    Attested  by  Joseph  Reed. 
James  Pierce  in  right  of  his  Bro^  Joseph  Pierce  both  of 

Woburn.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read 
Reuben  Lilly  a  Minor  in  right  of  his  Grandfather  Reuben 

Lilly  of  Woburn.     Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
John  Gold  of  Stoneham  Personally  present.    Attested  by 
Joseph  Read  ^ 

Eleazer  Bateman  for  his  Brother  John  Bateman  of  Woburn. 

Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
Eleazar  Bateman  for  his  Kinsman  David  Fox  of  Woburn 
Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
21  — (Crossed  out) 

"  -J^^!^,f  f  ^'^^  i»  "ght  of  his  Kinsman  Isaac  Brooks  both 

of  Woburn    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
Jonathan  Brooks  in  right  of  his  Grandfather  John  Brooks 

both  of  Woburn.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 
Jonathan  Brooks  in  right  of  his  Uncle  Ebenezer  Brooks 

both  of  Woburn.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 


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25.  Isaac  Farrhar  of  Woburn  Personally  present  Attested  by 
Joseph  Read. 

36  John  Richardson  a  Noncompos  by  his  Guardian  Nathan 
Richardson  in  right  of  his  Father  John  Richardson  both 
of  Woburn    Attested  by  Zechariah  Converse. 

27  James  Symonds  of  Woburn  in  right  of  his  Father  James 

Symonds  late  of  s^.  Town    Attested  by  Joseph  Read. 

28  Samuel    Converse   for  his    Father  Samuel   Converse    of 

Woburn.    Attested  by  Joseph  Read 
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[Mass.  Archives,  Vol.  ii^fp.^j^.     Towns,  /74J-17J1.'] 

We  whose  names  are  hereunto  subscribed  being  the  descend- 
ants of  such  persons  as  were  in  the  expedition  against  Canada, 
Anno  1690,  do  desire  and  impower  Roland  Cotton,  who  took 
the  list  of  our  names  by  order  of  the  Great  and  General  Court, 
Anno  1738,  to  prefer  a  petition  to  the  General  Court,  that  we 
may  obtain  a  grant  of  a  township  of  land,  as  others  in  the  same 
expedition  have  done. 

Jacob  Wright,  James  Pierce,  Nathan  Wyman,  Samuel  Wyman, 
Ebenezer  Richardson,  Edward  Winn,  Jabez  Wyman,  Jonathan 
Brooks,  Benjamin  Blodgett,  Nathan  Simonds,  Samuel  Dean, 
Benjamin  Brooks,  John  Fowle,  Solomon  Wyman,  Timothy  Winn, 
senior,  Abigail  Tidd,  Jonathan  Poole,  James  Simonds,  Eleazer 
Bateman,  Mousall  Wright,  Woburn.  A  true  list  of  those  persons 
who  have  a  just  claim  on  the  next  adjacent  town  to  the  bounty 
of  the  General  Court,  by  being  either  personally,  or  by  their 
ancestors,  in  the  Canada  expedition.  Anno  1690.  Taken  in 
Woburn,  February  19,  1738,  by  virtue  of  an  order  of  the  Gen- 
eral Court,  bearing  date  Dec.  22,  last  past.  Joseph  Reed, 
Zachariah  Converse,  William  Dean,  Joseph  Winn,  Increase 
W"nn,  Samuel  Wyman,  John  Wyman,  Woburn ;  Jonathan  Poole, 
Reading ;  Joseph  Wright,  Joseph  Wright,  Jr.,  Woburn ;  William 
Temple,  Reading ;  Thomas  Pierce,  James  Fowle,  John  Russell, 
Joseph  Pierce,  Reuben  Lilly,  Woburn ;  John  Gould,  Stoneham ; 
John  Bateman,  David  Fox,  Isaac  Brooks,  John  Brooks,  Ebenezer 


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.  ^^  V  L  *°''"'  """'^  ""^^^^  *°  ^™ish  their  quota  for  the 
expedition,  from  their  exposed  situation  on  the  frontier  and 
consequent  liability  to  an  attack  from  the  Indians. 

Gr^n  7'  '^T"''"^'  ^''''■^•"'  ^"'^^^^b'^'  Chelmsford, 
weTeTn'  '""'^^^^^'-'/"^  .*^«  ^^"l^'-ents  west  of  these  towns 
were  m  an  exposed  position  and  furnished  but  few  men. 


LANCASTER. 

Ph^TT'J'^"  represented  among  the  sufferers  in  Sir  William 
Hiips   disastrous  expedition  against  Canada.     Endorsed  on  a 
"Lt  wm   7*f^?^'^°,  Massachusetts  Archives,  XXXVI.,  134, 
five  ^U  t  Lanchaster"  [Benjamin],  and  the  names  o 

five  soldiers  are  known  from  a  petition  of  theii  heirs,  in  17,8 
for  land  grants,  viz. :  '         '^*' 

Joseph  Atherton,  jqhn  Pope, 

Jonathan  Fairbank,  Samuel  Wheeler, 

Timothy  Wheelock. 


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1690.  To  the  Hon«  Lift  GouW  &  Counsell  of  Massachu- 
ftovnce  New  England,  Grace  Mercy  &  peace  be  multS  to 
ye  woithy  GenUm"  of  ye  Assembley.  muiapned  to 

be,W  Contiu''"""'"'''^'^™"  ^'="="'  humbly  shewe*  that 

SZu  ?"'^''  *  "!"*='  P*«'  *  ■">  -^--'^  'o  b=  found,  my 
Humble  Request  .s  that  yo'  Hon-  will  Consider  yor  Petitin'  tha^ 
he  may  not  pay  ou,  of  his  own  Estate,  for  tha'  w-  ^  o  he 


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men's  dues.  Yor  Petitin'  also  Relating  to  his  office  that  yeare 
has  been  a  great  suffrer,  haueing  two  Ratts  to  colect  namely 
tweenty  Ratts  w"*  was  Graine,  &  two  &  a  halfe  money,  the 
scarcity  of  y*  on  &  not  haueing  the  other,  y"  Loss  in  a  great 
meashur  became  y*  Constabl*,  now  yo'  petition'  humbley  Craues 
yo'  Hon"  favour  that  you  will  please  to  Graunt  him  a  clearence 
from  Mr  Tayler  Treasur'  so  shall  he  be  oblidged  to  pray  for 
yor  Hon's  peace  &  prsprty 

Yo'  supleant  serv'  Cyprian  Steevens 


Lancaster,  June  4''',  1695. 
A  list  of  y*  names  of  those  p'sons  that  moued  from  y*  Town 
of  Lancaster  of  w**  sum  are  Dead,  in  y*  yeare  1690. 

Also  y*  Loss  of  16  wolues  by  a  mistake  of  Major  Phillipses 


mp' Joseph  Waters  iSwolue 

s   Cypnan  Steevens    7-3 

Cyprian  Steevens,  17      " 

Will"'.  Huttson        4-3 

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Sam".  Wheeler        4  -    i 

Benjamin  Willard    4-4 

Joseph  Waiters       6-6 

Nath".  Harwood     3-10 

Sam".  Sumner         5-4 

Arthur  Tooker        4  - 

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A  true  Acount  as  Atests 


Cyprian  Steevens, 

Constable  for  Lancaster. 


GROTON. 

To  his  Excellency  S'  William  Phips  Knight  Cap"  Generall  and 
Govemour  in  chiefe  of  their  Maj"**  Province  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Bay  in  New  England,  and  Hon'^  Council  and  Representa- 
tives thereof  now  assembled  in  Generall  Court  sitting  att  Boston 
flFebruary  23*  169I 


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THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN    1690. 

The  petition  of  John  Paige  of  Groton  for  himself  and  in  behalf 
of  his  son  John  Paige  who  was  a  souldier  under  the  comand  of 
Major  Wade  in  the  Late  Expedition  to  Canada  against  y*  coition 
enemy 

Humbly  Sheweth  That  yo'  Petitio's  son  the  s""  John  Paige  att 
Canada  received  a  Grevious  wound  in  his  left  arme,  of  which 
after  his  returne  home  he  lay  lame  und'  the  chirurgeons  hand  for 
the  Space  of  Twelve  months  and  upwards,  before  be  gatt  cure, 
and  after  he  gatt  cure  was  a  twelve  month  more  before  he  could 
doe  or  performe  any  reasonable  bodily  Labour  to  procure  him- 
self a  Lively  hood. 

That  Yo'  Petition"  sons  cure  came  to  Seaven  pounds  w**  yo' 
Petitio'  undertooke  the  payment  of  to  the  Chyrurgeon,  and  of 
wh*  he  hath  only  rec"  from  the  country  thirty  shillings,  w**  was 
soe  much  allowd  and  ordered  by  the  Comittee  formerly  appointed 
to  Inspect  y'  affaires  of  Canada  wounded  men,  his  Son  being  att 
that  time  under  cure,  butt  not  cured  till  a  very  Considerable 
time  aft'  and  soe  had  said  thirty  shillings  allowed  him  for  pay- 
ment of  y*  Chyrurgeon  for  what  he  had  done  to  that  time 

Now  Forasmuch  as  yo'  Petitio'  hath  formerly  made  Applyca- 
tion  to  yo'  Ex*^  and  this  hon"*  Court  referring  to  y*  premisses 
But  nothing  hither  haveing  therein  been  done,  yett  hopes  you 
will  not  deale  by  his  son  worse  than  by  others  of  y*  wounded 
men. 

Yo'  Petitio'  Therefore  for  himself  and  in  behalf  of  his  said 
son  humbly  Entreats  yo'  Exc''  and  this  hon"*  Court  to  take  y* 
premisses  into  consideracon  and  that  you  will  please  to  allow  and 
order  unto  yo'  petition'  the  remainder  of  s"  moneys  for  the  cure 
of  his  son,  as  also  that  you  will  please  to  allow  unto  his  son  Such 
compensation  for  the  loss  of  his  time  for  payment  of  his  Dyatt 
during  the  continuance  of  his  afores^  lameness,  as  to  yo'  wisdoms 
shall  seeme  most  meet  &  requisite. 

And  yo'  Petition'  as  in 

duty  bound  Shall  ever  pray 

John  Paige 


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This  may  certifie  that  John  Paige  Sone  of  the  Petition'  was 
under  the  hands  of  me  Jonathan  Prescott  Chyrurgeon  above  a 
twelve  months  time,  and  that  his  cure  pformed  by  me  came  to 
seaven  pounds 

Jonathan  Prescott 

voted  that  John  Page  Jun'  son  of  the  Petition'  shall  for  the 
payment  of  the  Chirurgion  and  Dyet  Dureing  the  time  of  his 
Cure  Receive  out  of  the  publicque  treasury  of  this  province 
Twelve  pounds  deducting  out  of  s"  sufne  what  he  has  all  ready 
Reced  :  passed  in  the  Affirmative  by  the  House  Re. 

Nath:  Byheld  Speaker 
[Endorsed] 

John  Paige  of  Groton  his  petition 
1693  27  febr  Vot"*.  in  Council  £,.  12.  to  be  p"*.  deducting  &c. 


READING. 

1690.  —  A  company  of  soldiers  was  called  for  from  Reading 
to  join  in  the  Canada  Expedition,  in  connection  with  the  Indian 
War,  and  Ephraim  Savage  was  appointed  its  Captain,  Jonathan 
Poole  and  Nath'l  Goodwin  were  subalterns.  Maj.  Jeremiah 
Swayne  is  nominated  for  one  of  the  magistrates  for  this  year. 


"  Jonathan  Poole  was  appointed  to  carry  the  soldiers'  *  de- 
bentors '  to  Boston,  and  to  bring  up  thence  their  Bills  of  credit 
and  deliver  them  to  the  Selectmen."  These  "  debentors " 
(debentures)  were  government  certificates  and  evidence  of 
claim  upon  government  for  services  in  the  Indian  war. 


1690,  Octob.  8.  I  had  the  preceding  week  an  impulse  on 
my  spirit  to  set  this  day  apart  for  public  prayers  to  God  for  our 
friends  who  were  gone  to  Canada.  When  I  proposed  the  matter 
to  the  congregation,  some  desired  that  it  might  be  deferred.  I 
answered,  we  know  not  what  need  our  friends  might  stand  in 


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llVT':,  K^'''  ^'"'^  '^"^  '"'■°™«d  that  on  this  day 
they  Engadged  wuh  their  ^nemies.  And  it  pleased  God  that 
not  a  man  who  went  from  this  town  was  slain. 

Dec.  10.     We  spent  time  in  Prayer  to  God  for  our  friends 

recovered.       '  "  ""'  "'^'^  "^  ''^'  ^^^  ^»^«^  -"  -«n 

(ifx/r«.//r.«  Z).«ry  ./  ^«,.  y^afAan  Pierpont,  of  Reading.) 


WATERTOWN. 

In  the  files  of  the  Middlesex  County  Court  is  the  followin,^ 
certificate  or  memorial  of  soldiers,  dated  Apr.  rs,  X690  Most 
o  them  belonged  to  Watertown.  '« Being  listed  in  the  serdce 
of  the  country  against  the  French,  and  ordered  down  to  Charles 

SeTdid^l^r^'  ^r"^  ^^^^^^-'  '"^^  -^dow  m;; 

LT    V    n  c-       ^^*«"^^^  "Nathaniel   Barsham^ 

^ll    r,^  ,P''''"P°'''   ^^'^''    ^™"^'    B"°ard,    Corporal- 
Richard  MeUms,  John  Applin,  John  Fisk,  Peter  ManseUohn 
Smuh,  John  Swetin,  Thomas  Stratton,  Hen^^  Spring,  John  Fay 
Thomas  Willson  [Woolson?],   Nathaniel  [?]    Wod    &Iomon 
Ray,  George  Stevens  [Stearns?]  John  Pon^  [Perr;?Wo"" 

iere'wis?     T''^'  ?""   ^^"•"     ^^^   *^'^  ^^^^> 
there  was  a  motion  to  the  Court  to  renew  her  license. 


MIDDLESEX  PROBATE   RECORDS 

Deposition  Of  Joseph  Beach  age  30  &  Daniel  Makee  age  20 
heybemg  soldiers  in  the  late  expedition  for  Canada  /being 
in  the  company  with  Daniel  Startin  (dated  15  May  169/) 


GLOUCESTER. 

nnJ!^  ^*J-  J°^"  Emerson's  parishioners  at  Gloucester  were 
Z^^\  t"'."  *''  '"'^*^°'^^  ^-^^  -P°--  incident  to  the 

i^Teir'dav  ^^^^^^^  ^^  ^°""*^ -^  '^--d 

m  their  day.      July  ,6,  1690,  he  wrote  a  letter  to  "Wayt 


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SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

Winthrop,"  Commander-in-chief,  respecting  "  the  sad  and 
deplorable  state  &  condition  "  of  the  "  towne  of  Glocester," 
and  craving  his"helpe  &  succor."  "Whereas  there  is  forty 
seaven  of  our  souldiers  under  a  presse,  the  case  so  stands  with 
us  that  if  they  be  not  released  I  must  needs  tell  you,  &  it 
is  nothing  but  truth  that  I  tell  you,  that  wee  must  all  be 
forced  to  leave  the  towne,  for  we  are  not  able  to  stay  any  longer 
after  they  are  gone ;  but  must  of  necessity  be  made  a  prey  to  the 
enemy.  We  shall  not  have  men  left  to  keepe  us  a  watch,  nor 
in  any  wise  much  lesse  to  withstand  an  enemy,  which  we  are 
every  day  &  night  in  expectation  to  breake  in  upon  us,  by 
reason  that  we  are  a  front  towne  upon  the  sea,  &  so  good  a 
harbor  for  shipping  as  I  believe  there  is  not  a  better  nor  a 
bolder  in  all  New  England,  by  the  report  of  the  ablest  seamen. 
Those  that  arv  under  presse  are  above  halfe  of  those  that  traiiie, 
as  I  am  informed,  &,  besides,  there  will  be  nothing  neare 
enough  left  to  get  in  hay  &  harvest,  so  that  wee  must  of  necessity 
be  forced  to  kill  our  cattell,  &  our  [are  ?]  in  great  danger  of 
being  fam'shed.  Therefore  my  request  to  your  selfe  is  that 
you  will  be  pleased  to  release  a1I  these  men  that  are  under  this 
last  presse,  there  being  already  listed  iiveteene  volunteers  for 
Canada,  besides  seaven  that  are  pressed  to  the  Indian  wares. 
Therefore  if  you  please  not  to  releive  us  in  releasing  of  these 
men,  wee  must  of  necessity,  as  abovesaid,  &  the  inhabitants  doe 
resolve  upon  it,  to  leave  the  towne  rather  than  to  live  in  con- 
tinuall  hazzard  &  feare  of  their  lives,  &  to  be  exposed  to  all 
other  calamitys." 

BOSTON    TOWN   RECORDS. 

July  iS"*  1690.  Rec^  by  the  Selectmen  y*  Ord".  followinge 

Ordered  by  the  General  Court  that  the  select  men  of  Bostone 

take  care  that  the  house  in  ye  Fort  on  y*  Hill  be  prouided  for 

Entertain*"*,  of  sicke  and  wounded  soldiers  &  seamen.     Alsoe 

to  prouide  sutable  Nurses  provisions  &  all  necessarys  for  them 

at  the  charge  of  the  Countrie.      By  Order  of  the  Generall 

Court 

Bostone  18*^.  July  1690. 

IsACK  ADDmoETON  secret*. 


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(  III  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA   IN   ,690. 

To  the  Constables 

of  Boston  and  every  of  them 

You  are  Required  in  their  Ma"-.  Names  forthwith  to  Imore,, 
Thirty  or   Fortv  able  Seamen  for  their  Ma"-.   We  Tn  the 

Ship    slnriTn^  o^^'"^"  -^  'ZrM  rr  ''''''  ''' 

the  Comand  of  Sir  William  Phipps  K-'  a«ains"  the      /  "-'" 
Enemv  h^r^nf  f«;u  ■      ^^        '  ^8*'"^'  the  said  comon 

C^rndov."  °™'  ''  ""^"^  "^""^^  ^"^'^^ 

ByorderoftheCJovemra* 
Three  of  these  to  Boston  »«d  CouncU. 

andoneoflikevenor 
for  twelve  men  to  Charlstown-/. 


To  the  Honourable  the  Governour  &  ComiciU, 

namt^  17^:;^'^!^^  ^'^""'  ^^  ''^  ^^^^^  ^an  of  War 
humbly  Sheweth, 

&  eadytt,„,ermtt,  their  Majesty,  Service  to  engage 

We  cannot  afford  our  Shipp  to  goe  under  eighty  pound. 
«.  Mony  a  mouth,  to  say  for  the  use  of  L  ship7& 
^r^fimnture,  the  Country  furnishing  powder  &  S* 

*&J^n^''.T  '?*''  «"8^«  &b.  disabled  in  the 

t  Ae^  t"!;""  ''""""^  ""  °"««'  'O  »^«'  "^ 

lor  the  Cost  of  her  present  Outset ;  — 


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(    112    ) 
SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

That  if  any  of  our  men  Fall  in  the  Service  that  our  Com- 
plement may  be  recruited  out  of  the  Companys  now 
goeing  forth  —  . 
Our  Company  of  men  belonging  to  the  shipp  to  be  p"  for 
this  Service  by  the  Government,  &  fou  -nished  V"  provi- 
sion, &  powder  &  ball  for  their  small  Armes  This  is 
humbly  Offered  to  Your  honours  Considerations 
By  your  most  humble  Serv* 

Charles  Bedford 
David  Edwards 
Cyprian  Southack: 


I 
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It  is  ordered  by  Maj':  Bartholemew,  Geydney  Capt.  Daniel 
King :  Capt:  John  March,  for  Essex  Maj»:  Nath:  Wade  Cfpt: 
Joseph  Lynde,  Capt  Ebenezer  Prout  for  Middlesex,  Capt  John 
Wing,  Capt  Ephraim  Hunt  Capt  Thomas  Barnard,  for  Suffolk, 
are  hereby  impowred,  to  make  strict  inquiry,  in  their  respective 
Counties,  after  what  plunder  may  any  ways  be  concealed,  by 
such  as  came  from  Canadia  in  y*  late  expedition,  and  alsoe  of 
all  stores  which  were  brought  back,  att  y*  return  of  y*  souldiers 
&  make  retume  of  what  they  doe  herein  to  y*  Gov':  &  Council 
past  in  the  afirmative  g 

feb'.  lo :  169^  Joseph  Lykdb  p  ord'. 

Consented  to  by  the  Magistrates, 

Jo*  Addington  Sec' 

THE    1690  ISSUE  OF  PAPER  MONEY. 

Governor  Shirley  in  1746  stated  that  the  expedition  against 
Canada  in  1690  cost  the  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay  about 
;£5o,ooo  and  the  loss  of  an  abundance  of  their  young  men  by  a 
malignant  fever  that  raged  in  the  camp  and  several  distempers 
that  happened  on  their  way  home. 

The  remedy  adopted  to  recoup  the  finances  of  the  Province 
was  as  follows : 

"  Whereas  for  the  maintainiDg  and  defending  of  their  Majesties  interest 
against  the  hostile  invasions  jf  their  French  and  Indian  enemies,  who  have 
begun  and  are  combined  in  the  prosecution  of  a  bloody  war  npon  the  Eng- 


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(   113  ) 

THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA  IN   1690. 


lish  of  their  Majesties  Colonys  and  Plantations  of  New  England,  this  G>lony 
bath  necessarily  contracted  sundry  considerable  debts,  which  this  Court  tak- 
ing into  consideration,  and  being  desirous  to  approve  themselves  just  and 
honest  in  the  discharge  of  the  same,  and  that  every  person  who  hath  credit 
with  the  country  for  the  use  of  his  estate,  disbursements  or  service  done 
for  the  public,  may  in  convenient  time  receive  due  and  equal  satisfac- 
tion ;  whithal  considering  the  present  poverty  and  calamities  of  the  country, 
and,  through  scarcity  of  money,  the  want  of  an  adequate  measure  of 
commerce,  whereby  they  arc  disadvantaged  in  making  present  payment 
as  desired,  yet  being  willing  to  settle  and  adjust  the  accounts  of  said  debts 
and  to  make  payment  thereof,  with  what  speed  they  can  "  a  committee  are 
empowered  to  make  an  immediate  issue  of  ;^7,ooo  in  bills  from  5  shillings 

tO;^5. 

To  prevent  a  panic  and  ensure  the  acceptance  of  these  bills, 
Phips  himself  exchanged  a  large  amount  of  his  coin  for  the 
Province  notes. 

The  government  also  accepted  the  bills  in  public  payments 
at  five  per  cent,  advance,  and  as  they  were  reissued  many  were 
received  by  the  government  several  times  in  a  year,  with  the 
allowance  of  five  per  cent. 

The  establishment  of  a  mint  was  also  attempted,  but  resulted 
in  the  mother  country  preventing,  as  shown  by  the  following : 

1691-a 

Jan.  19.  (15)  Report  of  the  principal  officers  of  the  Mint, 
on  the  proposals  and  reasons  offered  to  their  Majesties  by 
Sir  William  Phipps,  &c.,  for  obtaining  a  grant  to  the  general 
court,  in  the  province  of  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England, 
of  the  liberty  of  coining.  They  conceived  it  very  probable 
that  most  of  the  moneys  which  had  been  coined  in  New  Eng- 
land from  1652  (when  they  had  the  privilege  of  coining)  might 
still  remain  there;  the  lightness  of  the  coins  discouraging 
their  exportation  (being  about  22^  per  cent,  less  in  value 
than  our  English  silver  coins),  and  encouraging  the  bringing 
in  of  foreign  coins  from  Jamaica,  Barbadoes,  and  other  places. 
It  was  scarcely  credible  that  buyers  should  want  small  moneys 
for  change,  since  the  coined  moneys  of  New  England  were 
the  shilling,  sixpence,  threepence,  and  twopence,  besides 
small  Spanish  coins  current  there,  as  in  other  English  colonies. 
They  might   (if  their  Majesties  approved)   be  supplied  with 


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(   114) 

SOCIETY   OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 

pence,  half-pence,  and  farthings  of  tin  from  England,  to  their 
Majesties'  advantage.  The  privilege  of  coinage  had  not  been 
granted  to  other  English  colonies  as  represented.  The  instance 
of  the  East  India  Company  was  very  different,  the  privilege  of 
coinage  being  restricted  to  their  forts  in  India,  and  to  the 
coinage  of  moneys  current  in  the  dominions  of  those  Indian 
princes  only.  But  if  their  Majesties  grant  the  privilege  of 
coining  moneys  to  the  general  court  in  the  province  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  in  New  England,  they  proposed  that  the  moneys 
might  be  in  weight  and  fineness  according  to  the  standard  of 
the  Mint  in  England.  The  altering  the  standard  in  any  one  of 
their  Majesties'  dominions  would  be  an  eminent  prejudice  to 
ths  rest.  Dated  19  Jan.,  1691. 
Minuted.  —  "To  be  shown  to  ye  pet'.  19  Jan.  '91." 

{Treasury  Paptrs,  Vol.  XVII.,  ij.) 


CONCLUSION. 

The  foregoing  extracts  are  presented  not  as  evidence  that  all 
those  persons  mentioned  served  in  the  expedition  under  Phips, 
as  some  of  the  grantees  no  doubt  received  their  grant  for  ser- 
vice in  other  expeditions,  and  were  grouped  with  the  1690 
grantees  in  order  to  occupy  lands  of  the  Province  that  were 
desirable  and  unoccupied. 


(  IIS  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 


INDEX 

ONLY   OF    THE    NAMES    MENTIONED    IN    THF     a^^ 

THE  EXPEDITION   IN  x^  TO  CANAdI^''^''''''    °' 


I,  80,  8a.  Bassett,  78. 

Batchelder,  39. 
g^-aij.  95.  .03.104. 


Abbott,  30, 6a. 
Abel,  a8,  80,  8a. 
AbimiUck.  85. 
Adams,  31. 

^?Won.  34,  no,  ua. 
Anohon,  85. 
Albemarle,  4. 
Alin,  set  Allen. 

Andro8,3.ao,a8. 
Andrus,  87. 
Angler.  99. 
Annable.  53. 

Appeton.  88,99.51. 
Applin,  109. 
Archer,  50. 

Asgood,  M  Asbud,  35. 
Ashurst,e.  ^ 

Asplnwail,  74. 

ASrfe.'*'''*^«'"5- 

Atkinson,  93. 
Atwood,  8a 
Austin,  63, 63. 
Avery,  92. 
Axdill.  68. 
Ayres,  sa,  63,  65. 


Badcock,  31. 
Badger,  63. 65. 
Bagfey.  80  83.83.84. 

Balch.  a6. 39, 

Baldwin.  68. 

BaU.  109. 

Barber,  <v  Barbour,  41, 44. 46. 

Barnard  17.  37,  63,'im.7(U7,-„ 

Barnes,  a6,  38.  ^' 

Bamet,  j«  Barnard. 

Barr,4i. 

Barrows.  83. 

Baraham,  37. 109. 

Bartell,  50. 

Bartlett,6s,68,76,9a. 
^on,a^.a8,'3'9.^- 
««.  43. 75- 


Bates.  87: 

gjfhe^r.6,a9.3S.4i.4«.64.7S.«8.9o.9« 
Bellomont,  4. 
Bellows,  6a,  69. 
BemU,99. 

Bennett,  6,  36.  aS  ca  f^ 
Bent,  68.  '*'•*'' 54. 6* 

Bernard,  56, 65. 

Bf,ny.Si.64.«S. 
Bill,  39, 

Bisco,  loa 
Btockman,  43. 

BlSdeU,  65. 

Blanch,  sa 
Btanchard,  57.58,95. 


Blashfield,4a 
Bjashford,  4a 
Blodgett,  104. 
Boardman,  ca. 
Bobbet,84.^^ 
Boen,  or  Bowen,  ea 
Bo  ter,  76.  '^^ 

Bolton,  65. 
gond,  31, 69, 99, 100. 
Bonner,  39. 
Bootson,  87. 
Bowditch,  so. 
Bowman.  95. 
Boynton,  54, 
Bradley,  6$. 
Bwulow.  39, 54. 

Bradstreet.a8.s3. 
Brazeel,  8i. 

Bredeen.  31,  ■;», 

Brenton,  5. 

Brewer.  67. 

ftl5Sl''""^S'^*'4»'^.8o,84.93.   • 
Bridge^«^Bndges,3i.s6.'s^g-68, 


i 


(   ii6  ) 

SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


Briggs,  75,  83.  85. 
Bright.  81. 
Britton,  49. 
Brocklebank,  63. 
Brooks,  39,  103, 104,  105. 
Brown.  46.  53.  54,  63.  63.  65.  96.  98.  99, 
100.  loi.  ^  '->  '^> 

Buck,  93. 
g"gbee.43,73. 
Bullock,  81,  83. 
Burch.  46, 
Burg.  87. 

Bumam.  or  Bumham,  6a. 
Bur(r),  70,  72. 
Burridge,  99, 
Burrill.  37. 
Burrington,  54. 
Burt,  68. 
Bush,  31. 
Butt,  40, 45, 
Butterworth,  77,  81.  8s. 
Byfield.  108. 
Byley.  28. 

Caldwell,  53. 

Call.  37. 

Galley.  41,  43.  81,  83. 

Cane.  87. 

Caps.  Cops,  Cups,  41, 4a. 

Caree,  81. 

Carleton.  63. 

Carpenter,  80,  81,  83. 

Carr,  39. 

Carter,  39. 

Case,  74. 

Chadwell,  53, 54. 

Challis,  65. 

Champney,  46,  95. 

Chandler.  33. 35. 41,  44,  47,  48,  63,  63. 

Cnapen,  75. 

Chaplin,  Chaplain,  43,  45. 

Chapman,  53. 

Chase,  65. 

^u^ul^'/^'  "**•  '^S'  ^'  S3.  74- 
Chubb,  63. 

Chubbucit,  37, 70, 73. 

Church,  64. 

Claflin,  S3. 

Claghorn,  38,  86. 

9.*PfP)-4i.45.67. 
Clark.  38.  S3.  6$,  68,  74. 
Clarke.  40, 41, 43, 106. 
Clements,  41, 43. 
Clough,  so. 
Cloutman,  49. 
Cocke,  or  Cox,  43. 
Codner,  49. 
Coffin,  63. 
Cogin,  68. 


Cogswell,  S3 
Colburn,  39. 
Cole,  87. 
Collier,  50. 


ColUns,  71, 73. 

Colton,  34. 

Conant,  40. 

Coney,  69. 

Converse,  103, 104, 105. 

Cook(e),  41,4s. 

Cookoone,  87. 

Coolidge,  98, 99, 100. 

Coombs,  31,  so. 

Cooper,  44, 45. 

Copeland,  75. 

Corey,  68. 

Corwin,  or  Curwin,  16,  a6,  46. 

Cosh,  43. 

Cotter,  68. 

Cotton,  63, 104. 

Crabtree,  41. 

Craft,  73. 

Craige,  39. 

Cram,  49. 

Crane,  41  44, 75. 

Crehore,  Charhore,  Crowhora,  41.  4^. 

Crosby,  S3,  54,  63.  '  ^  *  ** 

Cross,  53. 

Crossman,  81,  83,  85. 

Crow,  30. 

Cummmgs,  37. 

Cupowo,  80. 

Curtis,  or  Curtice,  39.  40,  4a.  46,  74, 

Gushing,  70,  71, 73, 78. 

Cutler,  94,  95. 

Daily,  76. 
Daland,  39. 
Dana,  99. 
Danforth,  37.    ' 
Daniel,  43,  50, 74, 87. 
Darby,  75. 
Darbyshire,  31. 
Davenport,  75, 109. 

E^wsV7V^''^'^^'^'^^'^^'"'*'' 

Dean  (e) ,"  31, 83, 84, 85, 103, 104. 

Deanng,  or  Dering,  19. 

Delano,  93. 

Delleway,  or  Dillaway,  7a. 

Denison,  53. 

Dennis,  31. 

Derby,  49. 

Dickens,  81. 

Dickinson.  6a. 

Dike,  63,  68. 

Disdale,  83. 

Dix,  loa 

Dixey,so. 

Dodd,  50. 

Dodge,  39. 

Doughty,  93. 

Dow,  63,  65. 

Downing,  $%. 

Dowse,  67. 

Drake,  75. 


(  117  ) 

THE   EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA  IN   ,690. 


Dresser,  63. 
Driver,  7a. 

Dudley.  S.  34.73- 
Durgee,  S3. 

Dutrell,  99, 

Du(t)ch,  6a. 

Dwelley,  80, 9a. 

Eames,  68. 
Eaton,  80,  9a. 

Eddy,  81.83,83,84. 
Edwards,  iia. 
Elamus,  87. 
Eldridge,  n,  39. 
Eliot,  34,  83. 
Ellinwood,  40. 
Ellis,  80,  83/ 
Elsey,  so. 

Eveleth,  sa.  53. 
Everson,  63. 
Extall,  31. " 

Fairfield,  30, 31. 

Farrar.  104,  los- 

Faxon,  43. 

Fay,  68, 109. 

Fellows,  63. 

Fenton,  39. 

Field,  87, 93. 

Finney,  80. 

Fisher,  43, 81,  83.  83,  85. 

I  sk,  S3, 109. 

Fitch,  61. 

Rtts,  S3. 

Flagg.  67. 

Ford,  so. 

Forrest,  41. 43. 

Foster,  6,  so,  53. 

Fowle,  69, 103, 104. 

*ox,  31.  67, 103,  104. 

Foxon,  7s. 

Fraiy,  34. 

Freeman,  43, 53,  83,  86,  87. 

French,  40,  S3. 75- 

Fnzel,  43. 

Frontenac,  3, 13. 

Frost,  64,  87, 100. 

Five,  97. 

Fuller,  69,  86,  98,  99,  joo. 
Fui^gason,  50. 

Gage,  39, 40. 

t»allop,  or  Gallup,  38.  ao  qa  a^  ^  a« 
81,83,93,  °'"9'3a.  34.  77.80, 

Gannett,  93. 
Garden,  81. 

SfiiSr^Sb!"'"''^"' ^3.74.78.93.  X03. 


Gay.  4a.  74.  7!(' 
Gedney,  39, 40,  na. 

Gibbs,  69. 
Giddinge,  53. 

G"^""' 14. 39.  84.  8s. 
Gilford,  70, 73. 
Glass,  80, 93. 
Glover,  83. 
Goddard,  99. 
Goderis,  39. 
Godfrey,  87. 

^d.  40, 45, 63, 103. 
Golding.67,68. 
Good,  Y5- 
Goodale,  39. 
Goodhue,  so,  53.  S3. 
Gooding,  46. 
Goodridge,  63, 63. 
Goodwin,  37, 63. 6s,  108. 

SsbX^' 33- 34.  77. 86,  87,  93. 

Gould,  6s,  93, 104. 
Grant,  4a,  99. 
Graves,  68. 
Gray,  Grey,  40.  86. 
Green(e)  67, 70,  95. 

G^'Shri:^''"''^''^- 

Greenwood,  99. 
Greer,  7a. 

Griffin.  74. 
Gnndal.  aS. 
Grosse,  70. 
Grout,  68. 
Grover.  39. 
Guilford,  93. 
Gulliver,  41, 45. 
Guttendge,  6s. 
Gyles,  so. 

Halett,  so. 

HS;y?79?^''^-«3'«4'«S. 

Hambleton,  87. 
Hamblin,  87. 
Hammer,  9a. 
Hammond,  S3. 74- 
Harber,  43. 
Harlow,  93. 
Harrington,  68,  69,  loa 

Ha«sV,V'' '"'''• ''•^"•^• 

Ha,-t,  36,  sa,  63,  81,  8a. 

Harishome,  74. 

Han--y,  83. 

Harwood,  106. 

Haskell,  53. 

Haskins,  Hoskins,  8i,  83,  83,  85. 


*--e 


(  "8  ) 

SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAX.  WAltS. 


HMtingi,  31. 95,  99. 

Hatch,  39. 

Hay.  99. 

Hayward,  aS.  75. 

Hazzen,  65. 

Heath,  74.  75. 

Hedge,  86. 

Heirs,  see  Ayies. ' 

Henchman,  34,  39. 

Hend)ey,  50. 

Henshaw,  Heniha,  Hinshua,  41, 43,45. 

Herrick,  38,  39, 40, 75- 

Hersey,  41, 74. 

Hewins,  Hewen';,  41,  44. 

Heywood,  Haywood,  46,  55. 93.  94-' 

Hibberd,  40. 

Hicks,  Hix,  41,  4:1, 45, 95. 

Hide,  Hyde,  68,  laa 

Hidens,  Hidden,  54,  63. 

HigRins,  87. 

Hiland,  Hyland,  &3, 93. 

Hildreth,  93. 

Hill.  Hills,  35.  39,  6$. 

Hilliard,  50,  8x,  Is. 

Hincklev,  34. 

Hine,  49. 

Hiskett,  6. 

Hobart,  70. 

Hobson,  47,  SS.64»6S- 
Hodges,  83. 
Hoeg,  65. 
Hoit.  63. 
Holbrook,  68,  87. 
Holgate,  36. 
Holland,  65. 
HoUingsworth,  50. 
Holioway,  81,  83,  83,  84,  85. 
Holmes,  40, 54, 63, 93. 
Hooker,  53. 
Hopkinson,  63. 
Hosmer,  48. 
Hovey,  31, 51. 
How,  46. 
Howard,  80, 93. 
Hudson,  65. 
Hull,  4. 

Humphrey,  70, 73. 
Hunt,  37,  33, 50,75,  93. 112. 
Hunter,  81. 
Huse,  63,  65. 

Hutchinson,  33,  34,  99,  lot. 
Huttson,  Hudson,  xo6. 

Ilsley,  65. 

Ingalls,  50,  53, 61, 63. 

Ivie,  63. 


Jackson,  96,  41,  4a,  50,  6a,  9a,  96,  97. 

99.  *«>• 

,  acob,  73,  81. 

ames,  87. 

aquith,  68. 

arvis,  73. 


eckewot,  8x. 

effries,  37. 

enison,  53. 
;  ewett,  53, 53, 54, 63. 

oChlnson,  a6, 58, 63. 65,  70, 73,  8a. 

ones,  41, 45, 67,  69,  80,  81,  83,  83,  84, 
8s,  87, 93, 109. 
Jorda.',  83,84,85. 
'  oslyn,  91. 
;  by,  37, 70, 73. 
Joyce,  93. 
Judkins,  70,  73. 

Keith,  75. 

Kell(e)y,43.<6. 

Kelton.  30,  41,  45, 83. 

Kent,  63,  65,  93. 

Kibby,  67. 

Kimball,  53, 6a,  63,  loi. 

King,  37,  33,  35, 46, 47, 48, 49.  75,  100, 

113. 

Kingman,  93. 
Knap,  50,  80, 84, 93. 
Kneeland,  45. 
Knight,  31. 
Knowlton,  53, 63. 

Lamb,  74. 

Lambert,  50, 93. 

Lane.  31. 

Lasell,  70. 

Lawrence,  35, 63, 74.  87. 

Learned,  96,  99. 

Lee,  39. 

Leeds,  41,  44. 

Legroe,  50. 

Lelghton,  53. 

Leonard.  75, 78,  83,  83,f84,  85. 

Lewis,  86,  87. 

Liah,  39. 

Lilloo^,  73. 

Lilly,  103, 104. 

Lincoln,  54, 70, 7a. 

Linfield,  75. 

IJnnet,  87. 

Little.  77, 78. 

Littlehale,  65. 

Livermore,  99, 100. 

Lobdel,  7a,  76. 

Lobden,  70. 

Long,  -II,  43. 

Lonefiellow,  35,  a6, 65. 

Lord,  41,  53. 

Loring,  70. 73. 

Lothrop.  78, 80, 86,  99. 

Low,  S3.  80, 93. 

I^wel,  65. 

Lucas,  37, 77. 

Ludden,  75. 

Lufkin,  53. 

Lunt,  63, 65. 

Luther,  81,  8a. 

Lynde,  50,  xxa. 


(  "9  ) 
THE  EXPEDITION  TO  CANADA  IN   1690. 


Maccantosh,  74, 
Maccone,  31. 
Macey,  83. 
Mack  Clafelin,  69. 
Mackdaiillin,  68. 
Mackerwethy,  4a. 

Macomber,  84. 

Maker,  87. 

Manchester,  85. 

Manning,  95. 

Mansel,  109, 

Mansfield,  46. 

Mapley,  41. 

Marble,  9a. 

March^7.^.63.64.6s.„a. 

Marrion,  8a. 
Marscraft,  74. 
Marsh,  65.  7a, 
Marshall,  85. 
Martin,  49,  5a,  6a. 

mSsoV^.^''^^''^'' 9^.98.99. 

Mather,  3,  e. 

Maud^sley.^odsley.4o.4M4. 

Mays.  70. 7a. 
Mayward,  10a. 
Meads,  4a 
Mears,  75. 
Mellins,  109. 
Meredith,  81. 
Meriam,  68. 
Merrett,  50. 
Merrow,  31. 
Metcalf,  4a,  S3. 
Mifhill,  6a. 
Miller,  76. 
Millikin,  6a. 
Mills,  34. 
Milton,  76. 

Mitchell,  as.  40. 
Mix(t)er,^.69,99. 
Moodv  84.  6s. 
Moonk(e),4i,44. 
Moor,  67,  68. 
Moquet,  69. 
Morey,  41, 44. 
Morgan,  39, 40, 
Momll,  41. 
Morris  (e),  73. 

ten.'jr^'^''*'-^'^- 

Moseley,  43. 

Mossman,  Morseman,  4s,  73. 
Mou(nton.  88.  "»•"»• /J' 

MuUlckin,  s6, 59. 


Musgro.  as. 
Myraud,  a. 

SeSon*^'  •'"*''•''<».  Sa.  81.  8a. 

Kka^''^-^3.74. 

Newton,  68. 
Nicuaman,  70. 
NiJes,  y^. 
Norden,  a6. 
Norman,  49.  50. 
Norton,  sa. 
Noues,  4a. 

Noyes,  a8,  30,  S3. 6a.  69. 
Nunuit.  8s.        •'      •  "^ 

Ormsbee.  8a. 
Ormsby,  81. 
Orn(e),sa 
Osgood,  eo,  65. 
Osiaiid,  67. 

Otis,7S. 
Owen,  75. 
Owin,  43. 

Page.  40.  6a.  68.  7a.  93. 

Pajge.  31.  9S.  107. 108. 

Pain,  86. 

Palmer,  9a. 

l^rk.  69, 99. 

P^kjr,  a9.  43.  68.  69.  74.  80,  87,  9.. 

Parkhurst,  67. 

Parmtr  (Parmenter).  41. 

Parsons,  39. 

Patch,  39. 

Patteman,  30. 

Patterson,  68. 

Patuxin,  85. 

Peabody,  6a. 

Peachee,  109. 

Peacock,  74. 

Peal,  so. 

Peck,  80,  8a. 

Peniman,  43, 7s. 

Penny,  6a. 

Perkins,  51. 

Perl,  63. 

Perley,  56,  S9.  6a 

Pemn,  sa. 

1^07,4^73. 

t'erson,  Pearson,  63. 

mers,  so. 

PWUips,  6,  34,  39,  75,  81,  8a,  83. 84,  85. 

Phinney,  87, 93. 

^^JPS'  ^'f- 3.  4.  S,  6,  11,  14, 16, 19,  ai 
33.  34,  36,  28,  39,  63,  83,  86,  9s,^oo' 

Pick°iri°L^°^-'"'"3."4."''        ' 
PJckwortn/so. 


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(    120   ) 
SOCIETY  OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


Pierce,  Pe«rce,  Peirce,  24,  53,  53,  55. 

6a.  65.  8a.  95, 103. 104. 
Pierpont,  109. 
Pike.  54,  55.  56.  60, 63.'6s. 
Pilsbury,  25.  63. 
Pindar.  53- 
Pitman,  39. 
Pits,  83. 
Pittifer.  93. 

Platts.  37,  53,54,  58.61.  63. 
Plummer.  31, 63. 
Poland,  51. 

Pomeroy.  Pumroy,  64. 
Pond,  43. 

Poney  (Perry),  109. 
Pool(e),  37.  40. 103. 104,  io8. 
Poor.  63, 63, 

Pope.  40.  41, 43,  44,  45, 105. 
Porter,  38,  39, 40. 73. 
Potes,  49. 
Potter,  63. 
Pratt.  49.  75. 
Prentice.  31. 
Presberry.  87. 
Prescott,  108. 
Price.  8r. 
Proctor,  5a 
Prout,  37,  39. 113. 
Prowse,  63. 
Prior.  Pryor,  80, 93. 
Pulsifer,  Pulcepher,  53. 
Pumshot.  81. 
Putnam,  4a 

Querk.  8a 

Quincy.  34,  39.  34.  88. 

Quinier.  99.  ^ 

Rainsford.  39. 

Rand,  03,  94. 

Randall,  99. 

Ranee.  54. 

Rawson,  36,  38. 

Ray,  109. 

Raymond,  Rayment,  36, 31.  33.  35,  37, 

38. 39. 40.  67. 
Read,  Reed,  103. 103, 104, 105. 
Re(a)dman.  41, 45. 
Reccords,  93. 
Remick,  87. 
Rice.  68,  69,  lox 
Richards,  24. 

Richardson,  66,  67, 68,  83, 104. 
Richmond.  83.  84.  85. 
Rider,  87. 
Ring,  53. 63. 67. 
Riplev,  70. 71. 73.  81,  83.  83.  85. 
Roach.  93. 

Robbards.  Roberts,  70. 7a. 
Robbins.  Robins.  87, 99. 
Rob  :son,  43. 

Robinson,  41, 44.  50.  80.  83,  87. 
Rock,  84. 


Roffers,  53. 
Rolfe,  55. 
Ronam,  81. 
Ross,  53. 
Rowly,  87. 
Royal,  46. 
Ruggles.  74, 
Russell.  34,  103, 104. 
Rust,  SI. 

Sabin,  8c,  81,  8a. 

Sage,  65. 

Sale,  37. 

Salter.  83. 

Saltonstall.  34.  39. 

Samson.  87. 

Sanders.  Sandras,  41.  46. 

Sanger.  99. 

Sargeant.  65. 

Savage.  11,  16,  18,  31,  33,  ai,  37.  46, 

108. 
Savory.  40, 65. 
Scoterbey.  31. 
Scott,  53. 
Scottow.  33. 
Searl(e8).50,S4. 
Se(a)ver,  4a.  74. 
Sewall,  33. 
Sharp.  73. 74. 
Shattuck,  30, 31. 99. 
Shautram.  87. 
Sheffield.  67. 
Shelley.  9a. 

Shepardson,  Sheperson.  81.  Ss. 
Shep(h)ard.  46, 74. 100. 
Shirley,  1x3. 
Short,  65. 
Shove,  84. 
Shute,  35, 41. 43. 
Silver.  65. 
Silvester,  Sylvester.  37.  33,  77,  80.  88, 

89.  90, 91,  9a.  93' 
Simmons,  7a,  80, 93. 
Simonds,  Symonds.  63. 104.  105. 
Skeff,  78. 
Smart,  17. 
Smedley.  95. 
Smith.  35.  36,  38.  39, 43, 49, 54,  63,  65. 

70.  74.  78.  80.  8a,  33.  84,  93,  95,  99, 

109. 
Sneil.  93. 

Snow.  38. 77.  80,  86.  87, 93. 
Somerby.  40, 63. 
Soper,  93. 
Sortin.  50. 
Soul(e).79.  80. 
Southack.  iia. 
Sparhawk,  69.  95. 
Spencer.  4,  38. 
Spofford,  54. 
Sprague.  78. 93. 
Spring,  99, 109. 
Squabscon,  85. 


THE  EXPEDITION 


Squire.  «a.  95. 

Slandley,  93. 

I.  S  "•  75.  83. 
aiartin,  109. 

Stpvens.  74,  xos,  106, 109. 
Stevenson,  41.  ^'^ 

Stewart,  55,  87. 

itoKlX^-'^-".  ^.99.100. 

Stowel.  7a,  100. 
atratton,  109, 

!»»"».  6a.  6s.  76. 
Stud  ley,  9a. 

Studman,  8a, 
Sturgis,  »7. 

iigar°,"'4:""°"''''"- 
iutToT8a^9r^^-'»''^-'»5.»o6. 

Swan.  so.  53,  6a. 
owasey,  50. 
Swayne,  a8. 108. 

IS.',:i^.^^'«-«-49.Sa.63.6s. 
Swift,  a8,  41,  44. 
awinton,  ag. 

Taft  74,  81. 
Tapley,  50, 
Tarbaii,  50. 
Tarbox,7a. 
Taylor.  ^3.  67.  106. 
Temple.  69.  103.  104. 
Thaxter.  70.  7a,  88.  89. 
Thayer,  43.  75.        "^ 
Tliomas,  77,  80,  81, 

TTjojnpson.Tomso„.sa.79. 

Bo'P.43.73. 

&&?«*''-•  «3.8S. 

Thurlo,  65. 
Tidd,  104. 

Toby,  87. 
Todd,  54- 
Toln1an.41.44, 
Tom,  81. 
Tooker,  106. 
Toppan,  6a,  65. 
Tory.  71. 
Totman,  93. 
Tower.  70.  7a. 
Townsend.  33. 
T^aintor,  81. 
"asJ^  39,  so,  81. 


(   rir  ) 

TO   CANADA   IN    1690. 
T«(.)dwel,.5a. 

Sl;',y7l'"'*"'^-^^-^''^^-<^- 

Trivet.  7a. 
Trott.  so. 

I'°W8.39.40. 
I  rowbridge.  99,  joo 

TS"ckerl';;;"""''"""*'^-'«'«9- 

Tueils.'Si.  8a. 

Tupper.  83.  87. 

Turner.  80.  91, 9a. 

Turrel,  75. 

Turusk,  81. 

Twi(t)chell,  67,  68. 

Twogood,  83. 

Tyler,  55,  56,  60. 63. 63. 

Umpatune.  81. 

Y"(^)y.  SO. 
Vjckery.  76. 
Vie.y**  Ivie. 
Vose.  37. 

WaUt)(e).4l  °* 
Waldron,  83. 
Wales.  46,  7S. 
Walk, -o 

Walker  67.  68.  83.  84. 
Wal(l)es.4i. 

Wallis.39. 

Warner.  40. 

Wasunks,  8r. 
Watkins,  i. 
Wat(t)ers,  106. 

^EsVr?6a?^^- 
Week(e)s.40.4i.4a.44.4S. 

^jl(e)s.34.3S.47.48.So.Si.S3.64. 
Wesson.  68,  69. 
Wefherby,  6a. 

Wh*eder'L^';?'"""<5^'«°'9»- 
me\tckfy'xof'''^5'^°S.xo6. 

Whipple,  S3. 

Wn.e,6.38,5o.sx.73.74.7S.76.84. 

,^!«'ng.  4a.  8a. 
Whitman,  7s.  93. 

Whitney,  69. 73, 99^  ,oa 


/ 


>■ 


SOCIETY 


WUttemore,  xoo.  loi. 
Wickum,  8i. 

Wild,  93. 
Wilder  44.46. 
W   ard.  a7.  89. 106. 
Williami,  so,  84. 00. 
Wllllamwn,  87;  '^ 
Wllley.  37. 

Wi'»».4a.43.46,.84. 
W  l(l)son,  37,  74.  8a,  109. 
Wing,  37,  iia. 
Wingalive.  87. 
Winn  Wynn,  37,  loa,  104. 
Winslow,  65. 
Winsor,  18,  at. 
Winter,  69. 


(   iw   ) 
OF  COLONIAL  WARS. 


Wjnthrop,  iia 

Wiie.9jS,a«.s* 

Wliwall,  3a 

Withington,  WhUtingion,  34.  37.  40 

Wixunj,  87. 
Woodberry,  39. 

Woolion,  XM  Wilson. 
Wormall,  a6. 
Wormwood,  36, 73. 
Wright.  103, 104, 
Wyatt.39,46. 
Wyman.  103, 104. 


